Historically, Latin American political leaders have tended to concentrate great power in the hands of the executive branch of government.
They concentrate great attention on biodiversity; soil quality; natural resources; climate change; air and water quality; and emission reductions in production and logistics activities.
Picketty is pessimistic that much can be done to reverse it (his sweeping economic data suggest that slow growth will almost automatically concentrate great wealth in a relatively few hands).
As a result, contractors prefer to concentrate greater lobbying resources on protecting the bread-and-butter programs.
Leverage may enlarge the size of the fund, but it can also concentrate greater risk onto the sovereigns that guarantee it.
"Lucent will concentrate greater resources on fast-growing areas like optical networking, Internet infrastructure, wireless, semiconductors, optoelectronics, Web-based enterprise solutions linking private to public networks, and professional design and consulting services for service providers and enterprises".
Mounted raiding parties from the steppes became difficult indeed for sedentary peoples to combat, since horsemen could move far faster than foot soldiers and were therefore able to concentrate greater numbers at will and then flee before a superior countervailing force manifested itself.
"A company that concentrated a great deal on industrial products in its first century might not have understood the mission of such a person," he said.
Their remarkable growth has helped millions of Americans to purchase their first home, but it has also concentrated a great deal of risk in two enterprises that maintain a smaller capital cushion than regular banks.
The country's resources were not fed into numerous provincial towns but instead were concentrated to great effect around the capital itself a dispersed string of settlements rather than a city and focused on the central figure in society, the king.
