. the number of billionaires over the last ten years in practice has doubled, and in 2018 reached 2208 people, and their condition was increased by 2, 5 billion dollars every day, suggests research international charitable and humanitarian organization Oxfam, prepared on the eve of the world economic forum in Davos.
according to the organization, the welfare of this group of people in one year was 900 billion dollars, and in the present condition of the billionaires is the greatest of all time. It is noted that in the period from 2017 to 2018, every two days, the world has a new billionaire.
at the same time, Oxfam commits another disturbing trend: the financial position of 3, 8 billion of the poorest people in the world over the past year has not improved at all. Comparing the obtained results, the organization concluded that the condition 26 obespechennaya citizens of the world is equal to the total condition of these poorest of the 3, 8 billion people.
Thus, the study reveals that the richest man in the world, owner of the organization Amazon Jeff Bezos has grown to 112 billion dollars, and now only 1% of its wealth equal to the entire budget of health of Ethiopia with a population of 105 million people.
Oxfam was founded in Oxford in 1942 to provide famine relief (Oxford Committee for Famine Relief). Now it is an international Association of 17 organizations working in more than 90 countries around the world. The purpose of the organization - addressing issues of poverty and related injustice in the world.
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