Such projects may be good for prestige, but are they a proper use of a developing country's resources?Doubts have also been raised by bail-outs for politically connected companies, such as Proton, bought up by the state-owned oil giant, Petronas.
The 18-24 year olds are looking for good tasting, prestige products.
There has been some recent international relations research into "prestige goods" or "Veblen goods," things that states spend costly sums of money on with little tangible return.
In a study in Nigeria, interest, prestige, good job opportunities abroad as well as regular work hours were the top ranked motives for studying dentistry [ 5].
This distance and effort involved augmented the status of pututus as a conspicuous prestige good.
Business leaders like talking to big audiences as it's good for their prestige.
His own nickname is a playful tribute to his Wasp style of good looks and prestige.
It meant prestige, good pay, security, and it was the goal for China's brightest university students.
For better or worse, Roosevelt got the lion's share of the credit, and the Nobel Peace Prize, for using his prestige, "good offices" and tenacity to end that war.
But Thailand may, Mr. Kaplan allows, be a weaker, less certain and less confident country than it has been in the past, and that is not good for the prestige of the political path advocated by the United States.
