What matters is selling the reserves and being rich now, not finding more for later.

Many people have been lifted out of poverty, and those with the right political connections have become enormously rich.

The average citizen has grown poorer, even as those close to the junta become ostentatiously rich.

In practice, however, such tycoon politicians have their own interests and gratifications to pursue.

Two types of contemporary populist, however, stand out the ultra rich business tycoon and the clown.

The rich and very rich have gotten very much richer, while everyone else s incomes have stagnated.

The attitude of indifference to income distribution is in fact a recipe for economic growth without end, with the rich, very rich, and super rich drawing ever further ahead of the rest.

In today s Russia, for example, property rights do not enjoy widespread popular support, because so many of the country s fabulously wealthy oligarchs are seen as having acquired their wealth through dubious means.

The Kuchma regime s vast wealth, stolen from ordinary Ukrainians, suggested that the reign of thuggery and deceit could go on forever.

The super rich had one over riding objective in joining the Bush coalition tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefited the wealthiest households.

George W. Bush s economic policies have been based on an extraordinarily reckless gamble that reflects a political coalition of two major forces the super rich and evangelical Christians.

Even in normal times, the super rich depend on government support and action. It is largely the government that has financed the fundamental research that produced the information technology revolution and the firms (such as Apple and Microsoft) that it has spawned.

Eliminate extremes of wealth

During this long period, some get rich first, which means that others lag behind.

As people become richer, their consumption grows more slowly than their wealth.

At the same time, there has been a massive global redistribution of income from oil importers to oil exporters a disproportionate number of which are undemocratic states and from workers everywhere to the very rich.

Football clubs have become the status symbols of newly rich tycoons from Russia or the Middle East, and international competitions, especially the World Cup, have become occasions to bolster the prestige, and sometimes even the legitimacy, of national governments.

Extremes of poverty are linked to extremes of wealth.

You are very rich.

The Risky Rich

He wanted to be rich, and he wanted to be famous.

They never passed on any of the wealth.

New Labour's Peter Mandelson voiced the spirit of the past 30 years when he remarked that he felt intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich.

Let s be realistic people like Buffett and Bill Gates have very few followers even among the very rich in the US.

Europe s cultural richness consists precisely in its diversity, and the basis for its finest achievements has been competition between people, institutions, and places.

Its people have become powerful, arrogant, and enormously rich.

Ideology and profiteering have also played a role in driving up the war s costs.

It made him rich.

Would you be happier if you were richer? Many people believe that they would be.

Historically, doing lots of backbreaking work is how countries have become rich. And being rich is how some people get the chance to do more pleasant work.

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.

These people sometimes make themselves rich, and it would seem nice if everyone could do that. But the varying talents, foibles, and psychological predilections of men and women make this impossible.

Rising stock prices generate stories of smart investors getting rich. People become envious of others successes, and begin to wonder if rising prices don t portend further increases.

The glories of getting rich have overwhelmed the deprivations of patriotic self sacrifice.

Some Chinese demographers worry that the country will get old before getting rich.

Despite Bo s nostalgia for Maoist rhetoric, he is conspicuously wealthy.

(h) Cultural richness To respect and enhance the historic heritage, authentic culture, traditions and distinctiveness of host communities

I believe that women who don't wear the hijab and those who wear indecent clothing have weak beliefs, are not cultured and civilised in their thinking and are irresponsible.

They currently are the best opportunities for artists to have lives of economic dignity not opulence of dignity.

The way India s political system evolved has made politics the surest path to wealth.

The colony of Hong Kong attracted a large number of Chinese and Westerners to seek their fortune in the city.

But they are unlikely to want to do so at this point, even if the US political system allowed it.

But, as societies become richer, the demands of the electorate become more nuanced.

As economies develop and become richer, manufacturing making things inevitably becomes less important.

This painting is described by a critic as an allusion to the embarrassments of affluence resting on a tattered Philippine flag.