A man lives in the makeshift house behind him in the Slovak Republic, a member of the EU. Photo: Mano Strauch © The World BankBy Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Mar 23 2015 (IPS)When the World Economic Forum (WEF) met last January in Switzerland, attended mostly by the rich and the super-rich, the London-based charity Oxfam unveiled a report with an alarming statistic: if current trends continue, the world’s richest one percent would own more than 50 percent of the world’s wealth by 2016.And just 80 of the world’s richest will control as much wealth as 3.5 billion people: half the world’s …read more
Source: Inter Press Service
