{"id":2367,"date":"2016-01-22T11:08:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T11:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:00","slug":"an-economy-for-the-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/01\/22\/an-economy-for-the-1\/","title":{"rendered":"An economy for the 1%?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weforum.org\/events\/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2016\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">World Economic\u00a0 Forum<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> opens at Davos this week with the release of its <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/wef.ch\/risks2016\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">2016 Global Risks report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">.<br \/>\nThe risks are divided into five categories: economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal and technological.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk\/publications\/an-economy-for-the-1-how-privilege-and-power-in-the-economy-drive-extreme-inequ-592643\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Oxfam released a report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> that showed shows that the wealth of the poorest half of the world&#8217;s population &#8211; that&#8217;s 3.6 billion people &#8211; has fallen by a trillion dollars since 2010.\u00a0 However, not all commentators accept this: see the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ft.com\/ftdata\/2016\/01\/18\/three-reasons-to-question-oxfams-inequality-figures\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">criticism from the FT.blog<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Look at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/povertydata.worldbank.org\/poverty\/home\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">poverty and Inequality data on the World Bank website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">.\u00a0 This enables some worldwide trends from\u00a0 1981 onwards to be tracked.\u00a0 World Bank data is also available via the UK Data Service: <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.le.ac.uk\/library\/find\/databases\/u\/UKDataService\">http:\/\/www2.le.ac.uk\/library\/find\/databases\/u\/UKDataService <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Economic\u00a0 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&#8217;s population &#8211; that&#8217;s 3.6 billion people &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,4,14],"tags":[235,204,72],"class_list":["post-2367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-finance","category-disaster-and-emergency","category-security-and-risk","tag-economics","tag-inequality","tag-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367","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=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions\/2368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}