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The 2008 World Wealth Report covers 71 countries, accounts for more than 98% of the global gross national income, and 99% of world stock market capitalization. The data on income distribution is provided by World Bank, Global Insight, and by countries’...
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They provide health oriented products which are
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A campaign watchdog group in Texas is urging prosecutors to launch a criminal investigation of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst over his failure to disclose his vast wealth.
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A campaign watchdog group in Texas is urging prosecutors to launch a criminal investigation of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst over his failure to disclose his vast wealth.
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He’s said to be the richest man in Texas politics, but the disclosures Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has filed to the state Ethics Commission have only the barest...
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They say time is money. Indeed it is so, particularly if you spend all your time to acquire money. But money changes hand. So there is a continual process of exchange...
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Add an extra zero to the ranks of the millionaires club.The number of people around the world with at least $1 million in assets passed 10 million for the first time...
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The world’s millionaires club is getting bigger _ and its members decidedly richer.The number of people around the globe with at least $1 million in assets...
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Lawyers for Philippine victims of human rights abuses under late dictator Ferdinand Marcos said Friday they regretted a U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning lower...
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The head of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Tuesday there is no need to restrict investments by government funds so long as they are...
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The politically sensitive gap in incomes between China’s booming cities and the poor countryside is widening, according to a Cabinet minister quoted by a state...
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Ed Gillespie, counselor to President Bush, reported assets of between $7.86 million and $19.4 million when he began working at the White House, illustrating the wealth...
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Fred Thompson has had a varied career as lawyer, politician and lobbyist, but it’s his acting that has proven to be most lucrative.The former Tennessee senator...
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Photos in a Mexican celebrity magazine have opened a window on Vicente Fox’s post-presidential life and prompted a cynical public debate about political...
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Union Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and his wife Rabri Devi were acquitted by a court on Monday on charges of amassing illegal wealth.
Lower court judge Munilal...
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The largest and first ever study of global household assets and wealth distribution done by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations...
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