Now, this is the lowest of the stages.

I started at the bottom in this town and I'm going right up to the top.

The lowest value is actually the bottom part of a tower like this.

I'm the lowest form of celebrity.

Paul Collier on the bottom billion

The biggest differences are at the bottom of society.

That's about two steps up from the pavement.

Start at the bottom and work up stepbystep.

I was bottom of the class. I haven't got any qualifications.

However, rural women are at the lowest level of the digital gender divide.

On the bottom tier we have basic needs shelter, clothing, food, water, mating and so forth.

They still go up in the short run.

There. Bottom drawer!

It starts with garage at the bottom, I suppose, appropriately, but it doesn't go up garage, grand floor, mezzanine, one, two, three, four.

Send to bottom instance.

I am something from underneath a rock.

So, the flow of resources from the commodity booms to the bottom billion are without precedent.

Shoes for Nike, where the uppers are polyesters, infinitely recyclable, the bottoms are biodegradable soles.

To the bottom to feed the worms!

And he's a, you know, incredibly poor teashop worker, on the lowest rungs in the society.

We got an inside look at the gang, from the very bottom up to the very top.

George comes from the socalled lower class, Dexter from the upper.

And the base of the building is again about public space.

Pandering to the passions of the base morons!

Well, I'll take the lower every time.

And that data, layer by layer, gets passed through the machine, starting at the base of the product and depositing material, layer upon layer, infusing the new layer of materials to the old layer in an additive process.

If it's more being trapped on the way out, then you would expect it to be warmer here and cooler here. Here is the lower atmosphere.

So if we could chop that away and give the building a small bottom, we could take that bit and put it at the top where the greater commercial value is for a property developer.

And that seems to be the general picture that greater equality makes most difference at the bottom, but has some benefits even at the top.

But real wages climbed 154 for the top 1 of wage earners and 39 for the top 5 , while real wages stagnated for the bottom 20th percentile of workers and fell for the bottom tenth. Indeed, inequality in labor compensation has been the largest driver of yawning income inequality, except at the very top of the income distribution, where capital income has been more important.

And that's the bottom billion, where we've heard today about a completely new approach to do it.

Now the elites basically have been liberated.

DPI NGO briefing on The role of microfinance in reaching the poorest of the poor

DPI NGO briefing on The Role of microfinance in reaching the poorest of the poor

Because the data is hidden down in the databases.

I couldn't possibly break down. I was raised on a pedestal.

In some sense, that's what happened, exactly, to the set of people we were looking at, is that they were willing to start at the bottom.

Being at the bottom of the social ladder, Roma face daily discrimination in housing, education and employment.

From this perspective, a shortcoming of the US individual income tax system is that marginal tax rates are high at the bottom (because of means testing of welfare programs) and the top (because of the graduated rate structure). Thus, the government has moved in the wrong direction since 2009, sharply raising marginal tax rates at the bottom (by dramatically increasing transfer programs) and, more recently, at the top (by raising tax rates on the rich).

And there was an interaction between diplomacy and the power coming bottom up.

It has its finger on the pulse of the public and its ear to the ground.

The entire aid flows to the 60 countries of the bottom billion last year were 34 billion.

In all the societies of the bottom billion, there are intense struggles to do just that.

The principle of subsidiarity devolves authority unneeded at higher levels to the lowest feasible level throughout the hierarchy.

On the top floor