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Quote:An Oxfam report has found 62 of the world's richest people own the same amount of wealth as half of the world's population, a statistic the charity is using to highlight the scale of global inequality. Five years ago the dubious honour of having more wealth than half the world's population went to a group of 388 people. Oxfam said the wealth of the world's richest 62 people had increased 44 per cent, or about half a trillion dollars, over that time. During the same period, the wealth of the bottom half has dropped 41 per cent, or over a trillion dollars..... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-18/oxfam-uses-global-wealth-report-to-highlight-inequlity/7096688
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