Higher education cannot compete with the salary scales of the business world, but an educational institution can offer many potent intangible attractions to members of the business community that will offset the differences in income.

Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom ( Nobel Prize in Economics, 1999 ), argues that third world development must be understood as the expansion of human capability, not simply the increase in national income per capita, and thus requires policies attuned to health and education, not simply GDP.

Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world with an average income per capita of € 250 ( US $ 300 ).

The per capita income of the CAR is often listed as being around $ 300 a year, said to be one of the lowest in the world, but this figure is based mostly on reported sales of exports and largely ignores the more important but unregistered sale of foods, locally-produced alcohol, diamonds, ivory, bushmeat, and traditional medicines, for example.

In 2010, golfer Tiger Woods was one of highest-earning celebrity athletes, with an income of $ 75 million and is consistently ranked one of the highest paid athletes in the world.

In 2009, Dublin was listed as the fourth richest city in the world by purchasing power and 10th richest by personal income.

The study argues that " at present rates of fertility and mortality and in the absence of changes within countries, the average IQ of the young world population would decline by 1. 34 points per decade and the average per capita income would decline by 0. 79 % per year.

Whereas, throughout its history, the South has relished its grits, making them a symbol of its diet, its customs, its humor, and its hospitality, and whereas, every community in the State of South Carolina used to be the site of a grits mill and every local economy in the State used to be dependent on its product ; and whereas, grits has been a part of the life of every South Carolinian of whatever race, background, gender, and income ; and whereas, grits could very well play a vital role in the future of not only this State, but also the world, if as Charleston's The Post and Courier proclaimed in 1952, " An inexpensive, simple, and thoroughly digestible food, should be made popular throughout the world.

Gini coefficient of national income distribution around the world.

This is known as the classical period of Indian history, during which time India has sometimes been estimated to have had the largest economy of the ancient and medieval world, with its huge population generating between one fourth and one third of the world's income up to the 18th century.

During the period of 1960 to 1970, the average annual rate of increase of Albania's national income was 29 percent higher than the world average and 56 percent higher than the European average.

Once ascertained, canonical copies would then be made for scholars, royalty and wealthy bibliophiles the world over, this commerce bringing income to the library.

While Malawi was a middle income country in the world during much of Banda's tenure, he managed to keep peace in the country for most of the time he was in power.

" However, it could be done if " you could re-establish a world in which government's budget accounted for 10 percent of the national income, in which laissez-faire reigned, in which governments did not interfere with economic activities and in which full employment policies had been relegated to the dustbin ..."

Further, the elite Athenians who suffered ostracism were rich or noble men who had connections or xenoi in the wider Greek world and who, unlike genuine exiles, were able to access their income in Attica from abroad.

Throughout the post-World War II era, Paraguay had no personal income tax, and government revenues as a percentage of GDP were among the lowest in the world.

The economy of Peru is classified as upper middle income by the World Bank and is the 42nd largest in the world.

In the modern era, democratic republics around the world permit fundraising for politicians, who frequently rely on such income for advertising their candidacy to the voting public.

The United States is the only country in the world that taxes its nonresident citizens on worldwide income or estate, in the same manner and rates as residents.

Russia's income disparities are now nearly as large as Brazil, which has long been among the world leader in inequality, and the regional disparities in the level of poverty are still growing sharper.

Nicosia is consistently ranked as one of the richest cities in the world in per capita income terms.

That same year, Rolling Stone magazine named Prince as the highest-earning musician in the world, with an annual income of $ 56. 5 million, largely due to his Musicology Tour, which Pollstar named as the top concert draw among musicians in U. S. The artist played an impressive run of 96 concerts ; the average ticket price for a show was U. S .$ 61.

Highly progressive income taxes, the introduction of value-added tax, and a wide variety of special surcharges and taxes made Norway one of the most heavily taxed economies in the world.

If adjectival meanings show relatively low retentiveness of stems, as I am confident will prove to be the case in most languages of the world, why should our basic lists include 15 per cent of these unstable forms, but only 8 per cent of animals and plants which replace much more slowly??

The most important aims of the Jewish students were as follows: to make the world a better place to live in -- 30 per cent ; ;

In 2006 Alberta's per capita GDP was higher than all US states, and one of the highest figures in the world.

In the late 1880s, Carnegie Steel was the largest manufacturer of pig iron, steel rails, and coke in the world, with a capacity to produce approximately 2, 000 tons of pig metal per day.

Since independence, Botswana has had the highest average economic growth rate in the world, averaging about 9 % per year from 1966 to 1999.

According to the CIA World factbook, in 2004 the Territory had the 12th highest GDP per capita in the world.

Traditionally, statistics such as batting average ( the number of hits divided by the number of at bats ) and earned run average ( the average number of earned runs allowed by a pitcher per nine innings ) have dominated attention in the statistical world of baseball.

Barcelona is the transport hub with one of Europe's principal ports, Barcelona international airport, which handles above 34 million passengers per year, extensive motorway network and also is a hub of high-speed rail, particularly that which is intended to link Spain with France and the rest of Europe as the second longest in the world.

Despite those challenges, the Caymanians enjoy one of the highest outputs per capita and one of the highest standards of living in the world.

Arminjon, Nolde, and Wolff believed that, for purposes of classifying the ( then ) contemporary legal systems of the world, it was required that those systems per se get studied, irrespective of external factors, such as geographical ones.

Katanga Mining Limited, a London-based company, owns the Luilu Metallurgical Plant, which has a capacity of 175, 000 tonnes of copper and 8, 000 tonnes of cobalt per year, making it the largest cobalt refinery in the world.

Philosophical Taoism also proposes a transcendent operant principle — transliterated in English as tao or dao, meaning ' the way ' — which is neither an entity or a being per se, but reflects the natural ongoing process of the world.

Egypt has one of the highest incidence of road fatalities per miles driven in the world.

For instance, for several consecutive years Estonia had led the world in the production of sulfur dioxide per capita.

For example, the United Kingdom has the biggest e-commerce market in the world when measured by the amount spent per capita, even higher than the USA.

In our everyday world, charged particles, such as electrons, move slowly through matter, typically on the order of a few inches ( or centimeters ) per second, but fields propagate at the speed of light-approximately 300 thousand kilometers ( or 186 thousand miles ) a second.

The BBC reported that in 2002 work done by Edward Castronova showed that Everquest was the 77th richest country in the world, sandwiched between Russia and Bulgaria and its GDP per capita was higher than that of the People's Republic of China and India.

Finnish troops have participated in UN peacekeeping activities since 1956, and the Finns continue to be one of the largest per capita contributors of peacekeepers in the world.

Transportation in France relies on one of the densest networks in the world with 146 km of road and 6. 2 km of rail lines per 100 km < sup > 2 </ sup >.

Another element supporting this fact is that Paris has the highest density of cinemas in the world, measured by the number of movie theaters per inhabitant, and that in most " downtown Paris " movie theaters, foreign movies which would be secluded to " art houses " cinemas in other places are shown alongside " mainstream " works.