The World Economic Forum opens at Davos this week with the release of its 2016 Global Risks report.
The risks are divided into five categories: economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal and technological.
Oxfam released a report that showed shows that the wealth of the poorest half of the world’s population – that’s 3.6 billion people – has fallen by a trillion dollars since 2010. However, not all commentators accept this: see the criticism from the FT.blog.
Look at poverty and Inequality data on the World Bank website. This enables some worldwide trends from 1981 onwards to be tracked. World Bank data is also available via the UK Data Service: http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/find/databases/u/UKDataService
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