"People see the resources being extracted, they see the apparent flow of wealth flowing to certain players, but then on the ground they just see problems".
Our purpose was not to test the resource dilution hypothesis directly, as others have done, but to establish the limits of its utility by incorporating data on wealth-flows to highlight the dual processes of dilution and enrichment that occur simultaneously within Malawian families.
While vast wealth flows for the tops of finance, austerity is the watchword across the United States.
At the same time, progressive taxation means that wealth flows back to the bottom and keeps the circulation flowing.
Though wealth flows through Baku, the salaries of many middle-class residents have lagged.
Paraguay is a rich country, but very unequal, and my main aim is to let wealth flow to those on lower incomes.
And that is probably a good thing, since the effects of the wealth flowing into Miami during Art Basel — both the cash-on-the-barrelhead and the trickle-down kind — are palpable.
Systems that put a premium on scale value control so the maximum amount of power and wealth flow to the few at the centre.
But she gave it up on the expectation that she could do even better seeking a piece of the new wealth flowing through town.
The nation simply cannot survive with too much wealth flowing into too few hands.
When Christians gave, by contrast, wealth flowed from "the rich" to "the poor".
