After that, the economy simply grows in line with the overall rise in wealth.
"We should not forget that globalization has permitted our shared rise in wealth over recent decades," he said.
"We need action to ensure that a rise in wealth is more evenly shared in order to combat poverty and ensure everyone gets a fair share".
More broadly, the visit was a moment of pride for many of Lebanon's Shiites, who have historically been the country's most disadvantaged and are now rapidly rising in wealth and numbers.
Along with the rise in wealth and the public focus on giving, though, there seems to be a third explanation for the rise in charitable contributions by young people, which is far more controversial.
Underlying the tax breaks is a perception among charities that the abrupt rise in wealth, created by the so-called new economy, has generated a new pool of potential givers in electronic businesses.
Despite Spain being locked in one of Europe's most crippling recessions, with 55% youth unemployment, Ortega was estimated to have seen the biggest rise in wealth of any billionaire, adding $19.5bn to his pot.
Along with all this, the '80s, '90s and the last 10 years have seen in Britain, as elsewhere in the Western world, a rapid rise in wealth and household incomes that has bred a new mood of self-confidence, dented but not reversed by the current economic woes, and brought with it an abandonment of many of the attitudes that sustained the old order.
Trained at Britain's military academy at Sandhurst, Mr Khama wants to shake his compatriots out of the torpid complacency induced, he thinks, by Botswana's diamond-driven rise in wealth.When diamonds were discovered in 1967, a year after independence, Botswana was among the ten poorest countries in the world.
