 | Anouar Majid - History - 2000 - 244 pages
...and the "world's 225 richest individuals, of whom 6o are Americans with total assets of $331 billion, have a combined wealth of over $1 trillion— equal...the annual income of the poorest 47 percent of the entire world's population." These figures, taken from the 1998 United Nations Human Development Report,... | |
 | Osvaldo Néstor Feinstein, Robert Picciotto - Social Science - 2000 - 416 pages
...as dispassionately as possible. attention to the enormous inequality in today's world, UNDP writes, "New estimates show that the world's 225 richest people have a combined wealth of over one trillion US dollars, equal to the annual income of the poorest 47 percent of the world's people... | |
 | Guglielmo Carchedi - Business & Economics - 2001 - 330 pages
...most vividly and disturbingly summarized by the following figures: in 1997, the 225 richest people had 'a combined wealth of over $1 trillion, equal to the annual income of the poorest 47% of the world's people (2.5 billion)' (UNDP, 1998, p. 30). The assets of the 3 richest people are more... | |
 | Frederick Henry Gareau - Law - 2002 - 404 pages
...the globe's poorest people. The disparity by 1997 was such that the 225 richest people had net worth equal to the annual income of the poorest 47 percent of the world's population (2.5 billion people).7 A plurality of these super rich (60) live in the United States, vvith... | |
 | Dwight N. Hopkins - Political Science - 2001 - 276 pages
...richest 225 individuals in the world constitute a combined wealth of more than $1 trillion. This is equal to the annual income of the poorest 47 percent of the world's population. And the three richest people on earth own assets surpassing the combined gross domestic... | |
 | Kevin Wayne Johnson - Christian life - 2001 - 178 pages
...individuals, of whom 60 are Americans with total assets of $311 billion, have a combined wealth of over $ 1 trillion - equal to the annual income of the poorest 47 percent of the entire world's population. $40 billion a year Roughly $40 billion a year is the estimated cost of achieving... | |
 | Osvaldo Néstor Feinstein, Robert Picciotto - Political Science - 410 pages
...we undertake it, and we should be prepared to conduct the evaluation as dispassionately as possible. show that the world's 225 richest people have a combined wealth of over one trillion US dollars, equal to the annual income of the poorest 47 percent of the world's people... | |
 | Chandra Muzaffar - History - 2002 - 388 pages
...income of the poorest 20 per cent — by 1995 82 times as much income."36 What is even more distressing, "the world's 225 richest people have a combined wealth...trillion, equal to the annual income of the poorest 47% of the world's people (2.5 billion). The three richest people have assets that exceed the combined... | |
 | Riane Eisler - Self-Help - 2010 - 304 pages
...rules. ECONOMIC RULES AND SOCIAL PRIORITIES THE UNITED NATIONS Human Development Report 1998 reported that the world's 225 richest people have a combined wealth of over $1 trillion, or equal to the combined annual income of the poorest 2.5 billion people — 47 percent of the world.... | |
 | Jael Silliman, Jael Miriam Silliman, Anannya Bhattacharjee - Crime and race - 2002 - 390 pages
...The 225 people who comprise the "ultra-rich" have a combined wealth of over $1 trillion, equivalent to the annual income of the poorest 47 percent of the world's people. Despite improvements in infant mortality, life expectancy and literacy rates, almost one-third of the... | |
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New estimates show that the world's 225 richest people have a combined wealth of over $1 trillion, equal to the annual income of the poorest 47 percent of the world's people (2.5 billion people). 
