{"id":2927,"date":"2017-01-20T12:21:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T12:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:51:24","slug":"8-people-own-the-same-wealth-as-50-of-the-worlds-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2017\/01\/20\/8-people-own-the-same-wealth-as-50-of-the-worlds-population\/","title":{"rendered":"8 people own the same wealth as 50% of the world\u2019s population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">This week the latest annual meeting of the World Economic Forum took place at Davos. News and information is available on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/events\/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2017\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1\">the official website<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">To mark the occasion<a href=\"http:\/\/policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk\/publications\/an-economy-for-the-99-its-time-to-build-a-human-economy-that-benefits-everyone-620170\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1\"> Oxfam released its 99% of wealth report with up to date figures.<\/span><\/a> 8 billionnaires have as much wealth as 50% of the world\u2019s population.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">Look on the left of the screen for the video on youtube which explains how the research reached these conclusions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">However these conclusions are disputed by free market think tanks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adamsmith.org\/news\/press-release-oxfams-wealth-inequality-stats-are-deeply-misleading\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1\">Adam Smith Institute<\/span><\/a> and the<a href=\"https:\/\/iea.org.uk\/media\/oxfam-should-ignore-the-mega-rich-encourage-free-markets\/\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1\"> IEA<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the latest annual meeting of the World Economic Forum took place at Davos. News and information is available on the official website To mark the occasion Oxfam released its 99% of wealth report with up to date figures. 8 billionnaires have as much wealth as 50% of the world\u2019s population.\u00a0 Look on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[235,204,72],"class_list":["post-2927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-finance","tag-economics","tag-inequality","tag-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927","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=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}