Canada, a smaller economy than the UK, prospers alongside its much larger neighbour, the US.
But whereas Dubai sucks in the region's money and skills, Israel prospers by walling itself in.
In a country known for exporting cheap textiles and expensive narcotics, Sialkot prospers by making musical and surgical instruments, leather goods and, above all, sporting equipment.
As Indonesia prospers, its birth rate is falling; South Asia's remains very high.
Where blacks embrace the idea, such as in Milwaukee and Cleveland, it prospers; where they withhold their support, as in Detroit, it fails; and in America's vast white suburbs it is not even on the agenda.This changing climate also applies to blacks and Democrats.
The fastest-growing port in southern Africa is not Durban but Maputo, in neighbouring Mozambique, which prospers mainly on the back of South African trade.
Even as their continent prospers, many of them will continue to depend on agriculture and there is little they can do about the threats to the world's environment.Another reason to push ahead is that Africa's hard-won victories are vulnerable to relapses.
It is a remarkable story, clearly told, astonishingly well documented ("We know more about the tobacco industry than any other business in the history of business") and with a transparent moral motif.Most smokers in America eventually manage to quit, and local laws banning smoking in public have become common, but the industry prospers.
Zimbabwe's ruined economy and currency have all but wiped out the value of Shoprite's operations there.Despite these tribulations Shoprite prospers.
That group also prospers most from Mr Romney's proposed cut in the top income-tax rate, to 28% from 35%.
Mr Putin prospers as the drama's producer and leading man; he cannot rewind the narrative in such a way as to extricate himself.But the audience's enthusiasm does not mean it wants to pay to keep watching.
