Sentences with phrase «called wealth of nations»

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These bubbles provide a classic contrast between the real wealth of nations and what the business press these days calls «wealth creation» that simply takes the form of rising asset prices — «capital gains,» most of which are land - price gains.

Immediately after World War II, the acknowledged disparity in the wealth of nations led to the establishment of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund; it was then widely assumed that the so - called developing countries could be brought up to some sort of parity with the developed countries by lending money and promoting economic growth.

British economic superiority was also an aftermath of the defeat of Napoleon, for that had been achieved largely through British mastery of the seas and through the wealth which «the nation of shop - keepers,» as the English were derisively called, had accumulated by commerce, both in pre-industrial and in industrial years.

They control the majority of the World's wealth and arguably are one of the most powerful blocks in the world, hardly a quality one would associate with a «minority» Perhaps the millions of non Christians who lost land or culture (not to mention millions of lives) as a result of Christian nations colonizing the World justifiably would call this headline atrocious as it simply is historically untrue if one looks at the World over the past 300 or so years and it ignores the reality of suffering brought forth by a particular religion that seeks to change all people to any one particular religion.

Meanwhile, the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Ibrahim Magu has called on Nigerian workers to join in the fight against corruption as they are the greatest victims of the mismanagement of the nation's wealth.

«Our leaders must lead the call for the restructuring of Nigeria because without this, we are going nowhere so as for our wealth as a nation to grow astronomically as aspired by the teeming Nigerians, we must all struggle for this.

The new research relies on data first published in 2002 in a controversial book called IQ and the Wealth of Nations.

is impregnated with the idea of a dichotomy between developed and underdeveloped countries, ignoring the existence of islands of poverty in the wealthy nations and islands of wealth in poor ones, and also implying that the so called developed countries, with heir unsustainable patterns of consumerism, were a model to be followed.

The concept of sustainable development is being criticized, in Brazil and in other Latin American countries, since the word development is impregnated with the idea of a dichotomy between developed and underdeveloped countries, ignoring the existence of islands of poverty in the wealthy nations and islands of wealth in poor ones, and also implying that the so called developed countries, with heir unsustainable patterns of consumerism, were a model to be followed.

That hoary old one, which should probably be called «Old Shep» about «warmists» wanting «to preserve existing arrangements of economic advantage of developed nations by keeping people of developing nations poor and without access to low cost energy» has been repeatedly euthanased by those of your side who insist that mitigation is a plot driven by guilt - ridden first - world liberals who want to transfer industry and thus wealth from the first world to the third and who accordingly want to give China, India and Brazil a free pass on emissions targets.

Before becoming Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper called Kyoto «a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth - producing nations».

In a 2002 fundraising letter for the now - defunct Canadian Alliance, Harper called the U.N. climate process «a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth - producing nations.»

When one is dealing with someone whose personal wealth is measured in multiple billions, a multimillion Australian dollar fine — which is what The Australian, that august organ that calls itself the voice of the nation or some such, claims Facebook may face — means nothing.