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But despite this inherent wealth, the lingering effects of a brutal colonial regime, followed by a painful struggle for independence and decades of violence and political mismanagement, have left it at the bottom of almost every socio-economic league table.
In the 1980s, the decade when we discovered sub-Saharan famine, courtesy of Bob Geldof and Band Aid, Salgado protested that "wealth" is a term too narrowly defined, as if those who lacked a stake in world capitalism have no inherent "wealth", or even worth.
The contents of such documents are often not described in sufficient detail thus making it difficult to utilize the inherent wealth of information contained within them.
Forbes screened IMF data for countries that have low and declining per-capita GDP, high trade deficits and high inflation, all indicators of bad economic management regardless of the country's inherent wealth.
And individuals -- intelligence is evenly distributed throughout the human population, it has no respect for family pedigree, for inherent wealth, they're sort of negatively correlated, actually -- [he laughs] -- and education is the key empowerment tool.
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To quantify potentially bequeathable wealth inherent in pension funds, we use historical data on total pension fund assets reported by Leimgruber (2008) and corresponding data for 2011 by the Swiss National Bank.
If it means that it is now impossible to mobilise a majority for the redistribution of power and wealth, the inherent pessimism is contradicted by the evidence.
Think of the fire power inherent in Middle East sovereign wealth funds, giving the capability to move oil and energy markets if they chose to do so (are they, aren't they? an open question).
The inherent value of natural wealth of the area is enormous, and it is that potential that attracts the predicable extraction-based, capital-intense investment that offers mesmerizing estimates of return to enterprise as far away as China and Brazil.
Piketty's contention is that capital has to be taxed in some way to guarantee a more equal distribution of its benefits for future generations, so as to avoid some of the risks inherent in more unequal wealth distribution -- such as Great Recessions, Depressions, or rising levels of crime and social dysfunction as enumerated in Richard Wilkinson and Katie Pickett's The Spirit Level.
Hence the attraction of a book which argues that growing wealth concentration is inherent to capitalism and recommends a global tax on wealth as the progressive solution.In this section What would America fight for?
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