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85 Billionaires and the Better Half: Poverty is Spreading as Wealth Accumulates

18-2-2014 < Global Research 167 38 words
 
An urban slum in Hanoi, Viet Nam. (Photo: Flickr / United Nations / Creative Commons)
The world’s 85 richest individuals possess as much wealth as the 3.5 billion souls who compose the poorer half of the world’s population, or so…
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