HUMA 1951 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Berkshire Hathaway, Jeff Bezos, Amancio Ortega
27 Mar 2018
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62 people own the same as half the world, reveals oxfam davos report. The oxfam report an economy for the 1%, shows that the wealth of the poorest half of the world"s population has fallen by a trillion dollars since 2010, a drop of 38 percent. This has occurred despite the global population increasing by around 400 million people during that period. Meanwhile, the wealth of the richest 62 has increased by more than half a trillion dollars to . 76tr. The report also shows how women are disproportionately affected by inequality of the current 62", 53 are men and just nine are women. Although world leaders have increasingly talked about the need to tackle inequality, and in. September agreed a global goal to reduce it, the gap between the richest and the rest has widened dramatically in the past 12 months.
