{"id":1869,"date":"2015-01-26T13:45:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T13:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:25","slug":"are-the-rich-getting-richer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2015\/01\/26\/are-the-rich-getting-richer\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the rich getting richer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk\/publications\/wealth-having-it-all-and-wanting-more-338125\">Oxfam in research timed for the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos<\/a>, in 2014, the richest 1% owned 48% of global wealth.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jrf.org.uk\/publications\/households-below-minimum-income-standard-2015\">Joseph Rowntree Foundation<\/a> released a report showing that the proportion of people living in UK households with an income below minimum standards had risen since 2008<\/li>\n<li>Use the <a href=\"http:\/\/topincomes.g-mond.parisschoolofeconomics.eu\/\">World Top Incomes Database <\/a>to generate your own data on current and historic distribution of incomes in nations worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>One of the key themes of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weforum.org\/events\/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2015\">World Economic Forum<\/a> is economic growth. Consult the website to get information on how economic leaders intend to tackle this problem.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaljustice.org.uk\/\">Global Justice Now<\/a> challenges their \u2018 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaljustice.org.uk\/dangerous-delusions\">Seven dangerous delusions\u2019<\/a>. One of these focuses upon the \u2018myth\u2019 that Africa is poor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Oxfam in research timed for the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos, in 2014, the richest 1% owned 48% of global wealth. Joseph Rowntree Foundation released a report showing that the proportion of people living in UK households with an income below minimum standards had risen since 2008 Use the World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,15],"tags":[17,235,72,93],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-finance","category-sociology","tag-africa","tag-economics","tag-poverty","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1870,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}