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Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/20/oxfam-85-richest-people-half-of-the-worldThe world's wealthiest people aren't known for travelling by bus, but if they fancied a change of scene then the richest 85 people on the globe who between them control as much wealth as the poorest half of the global population put together could squeeze onto a single double-decker.
The extent to which so much global wealth has become corralled by a virtual handful of the so-called 'global elite' is exposed in a new report from Oxfam on Monday. It warned that those richest 85 people across the globe share a combined wealth of £1tn, as much as the poorest 3.5 billion of the world's population.
Winnie Byanyima, the Oxfam executive director who will attend the Davos meetings, said: "It is staggering that in the 21st Century, half of the world's population that's three and a half billion people own no more than a tiny elite whose numbers could all fit comfortably on a double-decker bus."
Oxfam also argues that this is no accident either, saying growing inequality has been driven by a "power grab" by wealthy elites, who have co-opted the political process to rig the rules of the economic system in their favour.
In the report, entitled Working For The Few (summary here), Oxfam warned that the fight against poverty cannot be won until wealth inequality has been tackled.
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Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world (Original Post)
flamingdem
Mar 2014
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daleanime
(17,796 posts)1. K&R....
Worthy of multiple kicks.
antigop
(12,778 posts)2. k&r. nt
trublu992
(489 posts)3. I guess we can't know who the 85 are?