Sentences with phrase «with concentration of wealth»

The current regime is plainly comfortable with concentration of wealth in SOE's [state - owned enterprises] and their princeling managers but must recognize limits.

Sadly, with the concentration of wealth in America, many American families now live at or below the poverty line.

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Take that funding away and the market settles back into something more closely aligned with the underlying reality — the one of high unemployment / underemployment, high oil prices, stagnant middle - and lower - class incomes, unprecedented wealth concentration in the upper class, demolished savers, under - investment in capital, and an ongoing transition to a low - wage service economy hard - pressed to service debt.

The Boston Consulting Group projects this trend of wealth concentration to continue, with the millionaire class controlling 49 % of global wealth by 2019.

Catering to this concentration of wealth, a slew of luxurious restaurants have opened at the city's over-the-top hotels and resorts in recent years, many of them with star chef names on the awnings: Joël Robuchon, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver, and Daniel Boulud have all opened properties in Singapore.

As with income, these data show a long historical decline in the concentration of wealth from the late 1920s into the late 1970s.

Crude demand sure to fall with low industry growth, people getting poorer (as a result of concentration of wealth in few hands) and increasing CNG and electric powered cars.

Is the rising power and capital accumulation of FAMGA (Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon) together with advances in block chains and artificial intelligence leading to the concentration of wealth in ever fewer hands, obsolescence of manual labour and even the destruction of capitalism, as Karl Marx believed in the 19th century?

«With such great wealth concentration at the top of the economic ladder, and working people having a harder and harder time,» Gianaris said, «it seems fair to me that we should ask a little bit more on a temporary basis to make sure mass transit is working for everybody.»

Hawai'i's history since contact with Europe and America includes colonization, disease, displacement of native peoples, a plantation labor economy, and concentration of land and wealth into American - born hands.

Harry Truman, Missouri's favorite son, once observed: «Wall Street, with its ability to control all the wealth of the nation and to hire the best law brains in the country, has not produced some statesmen, some men who could see the dangers of bigness and of the concentration of the control of wealth....

The financial strain is greatest for disadvantaged districts with little local wealth and large concentrations of low - income students.

However, North Americans can still claim the greatest concentration of wealth, at US$ 11.4 - trillion, compared with US$ 10.7 - trillion in the Asia - Pacific.

All of this is of a very high standard and with the hotels located all around the city, the main concentrations of hotels which are actually of the most interest are the hotels located around what is known as the golden triangle where almost all of the large conferences are held an there are wealth of luxury international hotels all offering incredible accommodation as well as unbeatable business and conference facilities.

Huang and Chen are fascinated with the myth of New York as an ethnic mosaic and its reality as one of the world's most intense concentrations of wealth and poverty, materialism and spirituality, cultural interaction and ideological strife, immigration and racism...» - Huang Yong Ping, Chen Zhen, and France Morin, exhibition brochure.

The first is the increasing vulnerability and exposure associated with increasing concentration of wealth in coastal and other disaster - prone regions.

Dr Cassandra Goldie, CEO of ACOSS, noted when launching the report that growing inequities in income and wealth are a «problem both socially but also, importantly, economically as the IMF (International Monetary Fund) has alerted us to, with an important report just last week, that if we're serious about economic growth, concentration of income and wealth in the top is bad for the economy».

Meanwhile, strip centers are in favor with lenders, says Murdoch, because the wealth of grocery store and drug chains that typically anchor them «have higher concentrations of strong credit tenants» than other retailer groups.

The other disturbing trend is the decline of the middle class combined with a sharper concentration of wealth at the top.