A world divided: Elites descend on Swiss Alps for the World Economic Forum

Politicians and business leaders gathering in the Swiss Alps this week face an increasingly divided world, with the poor falling further behind the super-rich and political fissures in the US, Europe, and the Middle East running deeper than at any time in decades.

A world divided: Elites descend on Swiss Alps for the World Economic Forum

Just 62 people, 53 of them men, own as much wealth as the poorest half of the entire world population, and the richest 1% own more than the other 99% put together, anti- poverty charity Oxfam said on Monday.

Significantly, the wealth gap is widening faster than anyone anticipated, with the 1% overtaking the rest one year earlier than Oxfam had predicted only a year ago.

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