Sentence examples for extractive wealth from inspiring English sources

Given recent discoveries, extractive wealth will be an increasingly relevant piece of the development puzzle.

In response, our political economy of the contemporary conjuncture must include a critique of the cultural processes that by naturalizing national, cultural, religious as well as class differences obscure the continuing extraction of wealth from the dispossessed around the world, an extractive process that is restrained by neither borders nor claims to being citizens "by birth".

The corporate giants involved in Nigeria's extractive interests have a wealth of creative talent that could be directed towards the country's core social problems.

They are extractive because investors with wealth from across the country are investing in low-income places and expect to generate a return on their investment.

The problem, though, is that most of this wealth is extractive.

"Rather than creating wealth, they felt extractive.

Apartheid in South Africa protected a regime of white owners whose original wealth was almost entirely extractive, built on the labor of black Africans in mining and farming.

But they will not feel empowered to do so if the institutions that govern them are, in the authors' words, extractive and bent on plundering their wealth.

But this misses a vital point: The United States was a product of colonialism by mass migrations, and it was the colonialists themselves who created the country; India and China were victims of an extractive colonialism that drained away national wealth.

Although the DRC's huge mineral wealth means that the extractive industries remain the engine of the national economy, said Matata, the government is keen to bring about an agricultural revolution by creating enormous agro-industrial parks funded through public-private partnerships.

Violence was implicit in the extractive economy that prospered by wrenching wealth from the Earth and people alike.