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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBy 2016, the world's top 1% will own more than half of all the world's wealth
Wealth accumulated by the richest one percent will exceed that of the other 99 percent in 2016, the Oxfam charity said Monday, ahead of the annual meeting of the worlds most powerful at Davos, Switzerland.
The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering and despite the issues shooting up the global agenda, the gap between the richest and the rest is widening fast, Oxfam executive director Winnie Byanyima said.
The richest one percents share of global wealth increased from 44 percent in 2009 to 48 percent in 2014, the British charity said in a report, adding that it will be more that 50 percent in 2016.
The average wealth per adult in this group is $2.7 million (2.3 million euros), Oxfam said.
Of the remaining 52 percent, almost all 46 percent is owned by the rest of the richest fifth of the worlds population, leaving the other 80 percent to share just 5.5 percent with an average wealth of $3,851 (3,330 euros) per adult, the report says.
The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering and despite the issues shooting up the global agenda, the gap between the richest and the rest is widening fast, Oxfam executive director Winnie Byanyima said.
The richest one percents share of global wealth increased from 44 percent in 2009 to 48 percent in 2014, the British charity said in a report, adding that it will be more that 50 percent in 2016.
The average wealth per adult in this group is $2.7 million (2.3 million euros), Oxfam said.
Of the remaining 52 percent, almost all 46 percent is owned by the rest of the richest fifth of the worlds population, leaving the other 80 percent to share just 5.5 percent with an average wealth of $3,851 (3,330 euros) per adult, the report says.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/global-income-inequality-richest-1-to-own-half-of-worlds-wealth-by-2016/
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By 2016, the world's top 1% will own more than half of all the world's wealth (Original Post)
davidn3600
Jan 2015
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G_j
(40,366 posts)2. this wouldn't be one of them conspiracy theories, would it?
well, forget the theory part.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)3. And once again I ask...
what can we do about it?
And even if we could get a Congress that depends on these people for campaign money to strip some of the wealth away, what could we do about those gazillionaires in Hong Kong or Dubai?
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)5. Start moving back to some level of protectionism, for one.
Impose limits on ownership of American resources, land, companies by foreign entities. Impose a 'wealth tax' on moving large amounts of money into and out of the country. Basically reverse every bit of economic policy imposed by Corporatists over the last 40 years.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)4. And then there's this tool
Oxfam's Whining Again; The Top 1% Will Own 50% Of Everything
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/01/19/oxfams-whining-again-the-top-1-will-own-50-of-everything/2/