Eighty people hold the same amount of wealth as the world’s 3.6 - TopicsExpress



          

Eighty people hold the same amount of wealth as the world’s 3.6 billion poorest people, according to an analysis just released from Oxfam. The report from the global anti-poverty organization finds that since 2009, the wealth of those 80 richest has doubled in nominal terms — while the wealth of the poorest 50 percent of the world’s population has fallen. To see how much wealth the richest 1 percent and the poorest 50 percent hold, Oxfam used research from Credit Suisse, a Swiss financial services company, and Forbes’s annual billionaires list. Oxfam then looked at how many of the world’s richest people would need to pool their resources to have as much wealth as the poorest 50 percent — and as of March 2014, it was just 80 people. theguardian/business/2015/jan/19/global-wealth-oxfam-inequality-davos-economic-summit-switzerland
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:32:04 +0000

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