That's how you get prosperous and happy".
"We're not trying to get prosperous," said Apesanahkwat, the Menominee chairman.
There is only a Chinese bargain: The Chinese leadership said to its people, "We will let you get prosperous and you will let us stay in power".
In fact, you only really get prosperous if productivity is increasing, and that can't happen when you have so many people sitting around doing nothing, or working in jobs that don't take advantage of the skills they have.
In my world, there will be lots of companies all battling to make you happier, healthier and more prosperous, with the companies themselves getting prosperous in the meantime.
Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank, recommends targeting benefits to the truly needy (by, for example, getting prosperous elderly folk to pay their own nursing-home bills), eliminating perverse incentives and promoting more competition between medical providers.
As countries get more prosperous, their populations tend to eat more meat.
We have Asian, Arab, African and Afro-Caribbean citizens who valiantly assimilate, and in some cases become Little Englanders as they get more prosperous.
What is more, as such countries get more prosperous, so their elites get richer; and it is not obvious that poor Americans should subsidise drugs for rich Indians.Today's problem is different a steady wave of the diseases that come with age, not an out-of-control virus.
But as emerging countries get more prosperous, they are becoming increasingly important to luxury-goods makers.The 15 fastest-growing emerging markets will provide 90% of the growth in consumption of luxury beauty products and women's wear over the next ten years, says Nathalie Remy of McKinsey, a consultancy.
It is a persistent pattern: maps produced by Charles Booth, who logged the incidence of poverty in London in 1898-99, aremarkablybly similar to those drawn up last year by Dr Douglas Noble of Queen Mary, London, to show diabetes risk.Yet around the same time as London's population stopped shrinking, inner London started to get more prosperous.
