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World Economic Forum: 8 people earn half income of entire World

 

 

Eight people name from WEF in World constitute wealth equivalent to wealth of half population of World

Eight people in the World have wealth which is equivalent to wealth of the half of the population of the world.

All the eight people are male and six are from United Stated, one from Mexico and other from Spain.

Forbes has selected the industrialists, Microsoft founder Bill gates, Co-founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg and founder of Amazon Jeff Bejos.

 More than half of the poor people are poorer than before

According to the data taken by India and China, the half of the poor people are poorer than before.

If the data is taken in 2016, there would be nine people whose income will be equivalent to half of the wealth of the World.

In the year 2010, there were 13 people who have income equivalent to the income of half of the population of the country.


 

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