Sentences with phrase «countries with wealth»

That may not seem like a big deal to countries with a wealth of developers and games, but it certainly means a lot to us.

In countries with wealth taxes linked to the value of your assets, you have to own more to be taxed more on it, and you'll still own more after tax.

«If a country with our wealth in fuels technology and money says we have to have nuclear power, then going forward that's an open invitation for any other country lacking any or all of those advantages to say the same thing.»

Not exact matches

On a macro-economic level, Ross continues, the country's gross domestic product is growing, as is the proportion of the population with sufficient wealth to buy theatre tickets.

With the president aspiring to lower taxes for both businesses and individuals, it seems clear Trump is looking for the government to redistribute even less wealth in this country than it has in the past.

The only other explanation, Guatieri says, is rampant speculation and foreign wealth — with the latter emanating mainly from China, where residents are estimated to have moved as much as $ 1 trillion out of the country last year.

At the same time, Silicon Valley knows it could do more to foster a sense of goodwill with the rest of the country, which does not live in its cloistered bubble of wealth and privilege, and yet has as much at stake when it comes to immigration reform.

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The country is an international financial centre with a mix of global wealth managers and specialized boutique asset managers.

If a Canadian entrepreneur has an idea with potential to generate great wealth, ownership of this idea will be decided in courts beyond Canada, by foreign judicial and geopolitical systems designed to make another country prosperous.

The Tadawul platform for trading companies within Saudi Arabia has been relatively stable in recent years, but will Riyadh be as liberal with a company that represents basically all of the country's massive fossil fuel wealth?

Similarly, in the country, the ultra-rich pay - off the politicians and then extract the wealth via different mechanisms such as money printing, bond - price (interest rate) fixing, corporate tax holidays, and excessive executive compensation while the nation's balance sheet is laden with debt.

This rise in values correlates with an increase in home equity among the country's homeowners, growing their wealth - on - paper by a collective billions of dollars nationwide.

«In many instances, immigrants arrive in a new country with some pre-established wealth.

«In many instances, immigrants arrive in a new country with some pre-established wealth,» Mr. Lefebvre says.

In most instances the rate for a product is determined by the relative wealth of the country, with countries placed into one of three groups: Most - Favoured - Nation (MFN), General Preferential Tariff (GPT) or Least Developed Country Tariff (LDCT), with higher - income countries being charged a higher country, with countries placed into one of three groups: Most - Favoured - Nation (MFN), General Preferential Tariff (GPT) or Least Developed Country Tariff (LDCT), with higher - income countries being charged a higher Country Tariff (LDCT), with higher - income countries being charged a higher tariff.

The Chinese shadow banking system is now a well - known financial Frankenstein, with multiple asset management companies, wealth management products and other off - balance sheet entities providing around half the country's credit volume.

It would be dumb of me to say «You should buy x stock, you should buy y stock» because (1) there are a lot of ways to create inflation - adjusted wealth over the long haul in a country with an economy worth over $ 13 trillion, and (2) you have to do it in a way that is within your circle of competence and fits your style and risk profile for investing.

And with people taking out loans for trousseaus and multi-day feasts in India, one minister of parliament, Rayapati Sambasiva Rao, tried to create government restrictions on weddings, saying they are «a vulgar display of wealth» in a country riddled with poverty.

Croesus» hubris results in the loss of his kingdom, and his freedom, to Cyrus, who in turn repeats the pattern: After gaining great wealth, he decides - even though Croesus himself warns him against it - to invade a poor country, and he loses not only the war with the Massagetae but also his life.

(When people say the US is a Christian country, they mean it is a Protestant country — hopefully white, with a little wealth to prove you have God's approval.)

A lot of press, particularly in this country, have criticised ministers who have lots of wealth, saying it doesn't match up with Jesus» simplicity.

5 % of the population in this country owns 95 % of the wealth, that means 95 % of the population only has 5 % of the wealth to work with.

Miller strikes another note seldom heard in this country: «How can the Catholic academy in the U.S., and to a lesser extent in Europe, blessed with such enormous wealth, make a significant contribution to institutions of higher learning in the Third World?»

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.

The US under the influence of recent popes has been sharing it's wealth with China and most other countries in the world while Americans by and large continue to grow poorer.

I look at the wars the USA has been involved in and see little in common with other countries wars to occupy, denude the country of resources and wealth and leave the country worse off for the endeavor.

Some of the areas to be covered will include economic realities in the global village, capitalism and the distribution of wealth, an examination of the multinational corporation, a case study of neocolonialism, power realities with a developing country, educational realities in the third world, a comparison of values — particularly East Africa and North America.

This would explain why poorer countries tend to have such high religiosity compared with wealthier countries (the West mainly), plus wealth generally indicates higher education — therefore more enlightened on science, etc..

Barca Spain ect like France are allotted lengthy time with minors and are also cherry picking south America and Africa respectively hence its no coincidence that these countries have a wealth of talent.

The midfielder would bring a wealth of experience despite his age with 34 England caps, and if he stays injury free he is one of the country's most creative talents.

While the wealth disparity in this country is increasingly shocking, here is what has surprised me most: regardless of where I am, and whom I'm speaking to, change — in our value system, in the way we parent, in what we expect from our children — has been consistently met with a combination of interest, appreciation, apprehension and resistance.

Despite a wealth of evidence supporting planned home birth as a safe option for women with low risk pregnancies, 1 — 4 the setting remains controversial in most high resource countries.

Also, you can probably leave your country, but can you take your wealth with you?

Realistically, the only way we can do this is to create a very small number of state schools that have the freedom to select the most gifted children regardless of their wealth — perhaps just several thousand in a given year - and which provide these children with the most academically demanding education available anywhere in the country.

What I think Nigerians must cudgel themselves with is how the likes of this strange character emerge to have seats in what is supposed to be reserved for the most accomplished, responsible and patriotic senior citizens whose wealth of experience the country requires to change the conditions of the ordinary people.

The NLC, which accused Dr Nkrumah of unbridled dissipation of the country's wealth and dictatorship, failed to continue with his lofty vision and handed over political power to the Progress Party (PP), led by Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia, after elections in 1969.

The principle of free movement was established decades ago when what is now the European Union was a much smaller group of countries with similar levels of wealth.

Today the European Union is a Union of 28 hugely different countries with a significant wealth disparity between the richest and poorest countries... This creates a massive incentive to migrate from poorer countries to wealthier countries; an incentive that did not exist when the Treaty of Rome was signed and the principle of free movement established in 1950s.

And we will build on our success in attracting UK pension funds and overseas sovereign wealth funds to invest with us in the overhaul of our country's infrastructure.

If the question is, are there countries with progressive tax rates that have less income and wealth inequality than other countries with less progressive tax rates, then yes, they've worked.

Solid future: In a chat with newsmen recently, Ekeh queried if our leaders and their advisers are too blind to see future measureable wealth or are deliberately turning blind eye to factors that can raise the country's status quo.

Currently in the UK, wealth taxes are a tiny proportion of total tax income (although above average compared with other OECD countries).

And I hope that is something that the Social Liberal Forum can help provide with their narrative around redistributing power, wealth and opportunity throughout the country.

According to him: «Until we understand what we are dealing with in its entirety and attack it from the roots and stop dealing with it from the branches, we will never create wealth in this country.

«Whatever our race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, whether we are immigrant or native - born, whether we live with disabilities or do not, in wealth or in poverty, we are all exceptional in our commonly held yet fierce devotion to our country.»

The Emir of Kano, Mallam Muhammad Sanusi II, has called on wealthy individuals in the Northern parts of the country to use the wealth Allah blessed them with, not only in building mosques but to also educate girls and discourage their early marriage.

Maitama, a former Minister of Solid Minerals in the sixties, said that as a former minister he is aware that Nigeria is endowed with the wealth of resources outside oil, saying the country has gold, diamond and other resources.

«Today many perceive politics as being synonymous with acquiring wealth at a fraudulently rapid pace and has nothing to do with service to country.

Twenty - three years after the end of the racist, repressive apartheid regime, South Africa remains a country with enormous resources and great wealth but also massive inequality and deep poverty.