Where has the oil wealth gone? Chávez s social programs were the biggest beneficiaries.

In that case, the tax cut, while gradually increasing private wealth, would decrease social wealth.

But the welfare state s aim has never been radical redistribution of wealth.

In cooperation with ECA, training materials on the Management of Mineral Wealth and the Role of Mineral Wealth in Socio economic Development were prepared in 2004.

But a tax cut could instead contract the welfare state social assistance and social insurance, which constitute social wealth.

Tackling social and environmental problems at the same time with the same solution yields great cost savings, wealth generation and national security.

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After all, the wealth effect works only when people believe that the wealth is permanent.

Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world, and Chávez s economic strategy depended on harnessing that wealth in order to address his country s social problems.

The moral case for a wealth tax is more compelling than usual today, with unemployment still at recession levels, and with deep economic inequality straining social norms.

No one is interested in creating wealth.

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In rural areas, land is the most highly valued asset.

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries

China s mad rush toward fuqiang (wealth and power) has given it little chance to develop all the compensatory institutions that any truly developed, not to say enlightened, society needs to achieve equilibrium and social health.

It was also exploiting the rich fishing grounds within the territorial waters of Western Sahara by granting licences to States and companies to take large quantities of fish.

Given that SWFs primary objective is to transfer wealth to future generations, their high level of exposure to fossil fuel markets is unsustainable.

Social democratic governments have been on the defensive against those who claim that redistributing wealth exacts too high a cost on economic growth, and unable to convince voters to fund yet another massive expansion of higher education.

In fact, some transfers flow the other way.

Quantitative easing works by increasing the value of wealth.

Blogger Taha Alhafedh warned from the exhaustion of the country's mineral wealth

Much of the wealth was devoted to temple building.

Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.

Fishing is conducted along 300 km of shoreline, and women are heavily engaged in this activity, thanks to the combined efforts of the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Promotion Women and Childhood and the oversight department.

At present, the accumulation of wealth is accompanied by the accumulation of poverty.

The Principality of Monaco is a small State that enjoys a certain level of wealth.

The Ministry's Department of Livestock Services shall grant the necessary authorizations to the laboratories

Housing wealth in the US has fallen by 34 since its peak in 2006, and is still declining.

The past relationship between wealth and consumer spending implies that each 100 of additional wealth raises consumer spending by about four dollars, so 2.5 trillion of additional wealth would raise consumer spending by roughly 100 billion.

The late Indian management guru C.K. Prahalad suggested in his bestselling book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid that businesses could make healthy profits by serving the poor and so satisfy their shareholders while promoting social development.

Indeed, as the financial crisis spread to the emerging markets that host most SWFs, the proportion of foreign investments within SWF portfolios fell to about 60 .

The result is that our possibilities of wealth may run to waste for a time.

Whether Redmond s average wealth increased depends on how you look at it.

Views about how to respond to the SWF s vary. The United Kingdom has adopted a laissez faire approach, while political concerns dominate in the US, France and Germany.

Chile's northern desert contains great mineral wealth, principally copper.

Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.

Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.

For me, it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power.

Third, and most important, wealth effects are for the wealthy.

Riding on record high energy prices and raw material exports, in January 2007 Russia became the world s tenth largest economy.

Sovereign wealth funds, too, are increasingly involved in financing development.