The villages continued to grow, and most villages experienced increased prosperity for much of the twentieth century.
Success in pursuing either specialized husbandry or diversification may depend on previous conditions of prosperity or poverty and background skills brought to those activities.
On the other hand, corruption has been found to reduce prosperity.
Second, although the countries of the region are economically underdeveloped, prosperity and development remain major goals in the articulation of their foreign policies.
Prosperity came from careful and laborious husbandry and was a sign of virtue: poverty was its opposite.
Its decisive and strong leadership is widely credited for creating national economic prosperity, a feat not yet matched by democratic governance.
However, my general proposition was that the prosperity of any economic enterprise depends on the collective efforts of its entrepreneurs, managers and workers.
The intelligentsia did contend that bringing in foreign economic power was essential not just to prosperity, but to national existence.
