Discuss disparities of wealth in the world today.

What will be an ideal response?


A Credit Suisse Research Institute study has shown that 1% of the world’s population controls 46% of the world’s money, property, and other material resources. Oxfam released a report showing that the world’s 85 richest individuals control the same wealth as half of the earth’s population—said another way, the poorest 3.5 billion people must live on an amount equal to what these 85 individuals possess. Two thirds of the world’s population controls no more than 3% of global wealth.

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