Sentence examples for proportion of wealth from inspiring English sources

The greater the rate of economic growth, the greater the proportion of wealth that ends up in land values.

The proportion of wealth in homes is now back to close to the level of the 1990s, but the debt levels remain high by historical standards.

Brits overestimated the proportion of wealth more than any other country, thinking 56 per cent own the most wealth, but the real figure is only 23 per cent.

Under the previous, Labour government, the proportion of wealth taken in taxes rose steadily, at a time when the general trend in the euro zone was downwards.

Whether calculated by comparing the growth in wages of the highest-income Americans with the lowest, or the proportion of wealth controlled by the richest Americans, or the ratio of wages for production workers to those of chief executives, inequality has grown.

Neil Irwin of the New York Times said that if the maximum proportion of wealth someone would pay for a painting is 1 per cent, there would only be 50 people on the Forbes Billionaires List who could afford the 'Women of Algiers'.

Referring to proportions of wealth held by percentile groups doesn't tell you if absolute wealth has changed, nor if the individuals are the same in the percentile groups.

Reaching its zenith just after World War II, the United States devoted increasingly large proportions of wealth to the military in an effort to maintain (and even raise) the post-1945 high-water mark of hegemony.

These curves display the cumulative distribution of institutional delivery by cumulative population proportions of wealth groups ranked from poorest to richest.

Another way of looking at the issue is to look at the share of inherited wealth as a proportion of total wealth; this was 90% before the First World War but fell to 45% by 1970.

Making up 38% of total household wealth in 2010/12, private pensions accounted for the largest proportion of household wealth.