Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.
Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
We're running out of rich people in this country.
Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.
There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.
In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.
And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.
The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.
Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.
There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.
You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But y...
Paradoxically, resource-rich developing countries are often worse off than comparable countries that lack those resources. One reason for this is that large resource endowments provide a huge financial incentive for attempts to overthrow the governme...
Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.
Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price dist...
I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.
We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the c...
If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.
The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
