Be that as it may, persuading the citizenry of the donor countries of this thesis — and the sustained transfers of real wealth that it requires — is a major political challenge, which many Americans and their news media routinely seem to underestimate.
The modern period, too, has seen some sustained discussion of global wealth and poverty, most notably in Peter Singer's discussion of the ethics of global famine relief (Singer 1972; see also Singer 2002).
Study: Anti-poverty intervention provides sustained boost to incomes and wealth.
The company, which is majority-owned by Richard Branson's Virgin Group, said its 82 gyms in South Africa were boosted by "sustained economic growth and improved wealth distribution".
But in the large cities along the eastern seaboard, the wealth from China's sustained economic boom is highly concentrated — and increasingly conspicuous.
But it is not entirely clear that the sustained focus on Mr. Romney's wealth at this particular moment is a good thing for Mr. Obama's re-election hopes.
Lewis quotes Francis Fergusson: "The author of the 'Commedia,' with its sustained movement, its freedom of style, its unparalleled wealth of concrete perceptions, is a new Dante".
Among the many European leaders felled by the Continent's debt crisis, Berlusconi will perhaps have the most sustained claim on the spotlight, because of his wealth, extensive media holdings, continuing criminal trials and sheer flamboyant Berlusconi-ness.
Meanwhile poorer Americans, who rent their homes, experienced soaring housing prices as a large and sustained increase in their cost of living.Housing wealth has played a critical role in rising inequality, to which Thomas Piketty, an economist at the Paris School of Economics, drew attention in his bestselling book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century".
