Friday, January 24, 2014

143.5 - Everything You Need to Know: world income inequality

Everything You Need to Know: world income inequality

Very quickly, an edition of our occasional feature, Everything You Need to Know, where you can learn everything you need to know about something in no more than a sentence or two. Sometimes less.

In this case, it's Everything You Need to Know about world income inequality in just one sentence:

According to a new report from Oxfam, the world's richest 85 individuals control as much wealth as half of the world's population, some 3.5 billion people.

And that is Everything You Need to Know.

Sources:
http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/bp-working-for-few-political-capture-economic-inequality-200114-summ-en.pdf
http://www.oxfam.org/
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-20/the-worlds-85-richest-now-worth-as-much-as-3-dot-5-billion-poorest?google_editors_picks=true

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