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  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20 The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.
  • Austrian Heinz Fischer Congratulatory Messages on the 40th Anniversary 2011-05-28

    AUSTRIA, 2011/05/31 On May 28, 2011, Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Austrian counterpart Heinz Fischer exchanged messages of congratulations to mark the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries.