As Ghana grew richer it extended its political control, strengthening its position as an entrepôt by absorbing lesser states.
To discourage speculation would require a much larger revaluation than the Chinese are likely to accept.Some economists argue that as China gets richer it needs to allow its real exchange rate to rise, in order to reap the full gains of its economic success.
Asia, particularly China, lacks agricultural land and water, whereas Latin America has plenty of both.The study notes that between 1975 and 2009 China lost 20% of its farmland to urbanisation and desertification, yet as its population becomes richer it demands more high-protein, high-calorie food.
"I am in favour of the government not denying what 5,000 years of history tells us is true, which is that every time a society gets richer it spends a rising share of its income on looking after the sick and the vulnerable," he told The Observer.
As for the Rhineland, the richer it grew, the more necessary it became to protect its hinterland, Franconia (including present-day Hessen) and Thuringia, from Saxon raids.
The bigger college football gets, the richer it gets, the stranger and more localized and fiercely its weird self it becomes.
Looking at the sentence from its structure alone, one can see how much richer it is.
The city didn't get much richer; it didn't get much poorer.
As the developing world gets richer, it will import more — and create more jobs here.
The irony is that as China gets richer, it burns more coal.
