development - particularly in the developing world. Yet while a large national income can result from resource wealth, it can also … be associated with acute social inequality and deep poverty. Many countries struggle to diversify their economies, and …

the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of … whether this implies the end of the historical two-cluster world rather than merely a transition as some people move from the … just 12 per cent, this would have been sufficient to end $2 poverty today. Persistence of global poverty, it seems, is not …

world’s population owns approximately 85% of the world’s wealth, much of it held just by the upper 1% of the global … population, whereas the “bottom” 92% of the world’s population hold somewhat less than 15% of global wealth (Burton J, 25 Highest … income earning countries. World Atlas; Economics, April 25. Retrieved March 23, 2018 from https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-highest-incomes-in-the-world …