In 1962, it was as prosperous as Singapore.
It is 90 percent white and as prosperous as Evergreen is poor.
For a start, the Czechs do not look as prosperous as they did a year ago.
Parts of Africa that are as prosperous as parts of Europe Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Cape Town have spent several generations actively blocking most black Africans from living and working there.
Top Russians like to cite examples such as Chile or Taiwan, which have emerged as prosperous democracies from periods of more or less authoritarian rule.
But Mr Zuma's supporters see his success, despite any formal education, as a sign of hope that they too can lead successful lives - maybe not as prosperous as his but different from the oppressive life under apartheid.
Riding the Paris Métro, you feel the tension as prosperous French people edge away from noisy gangs of teenagers.
Inside are over 18,000 Indian-Americans, as prosperous and upstanding a diaspora as you will find from the Redwood forests to the Gulf Stream waters.
Most shunga depicts vigorous heterosexual couples in mutual bliss – and these prints were likely cherished by men and women, both young and old, from different strata of society, including samurai lords as well as prosperous merchants and commoners.
Today Williamsport is neither as prosperous nor as fashionable as it once was.
Patients attending VIP or first class wards and VIP policlinic were classified as prosperous.
