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Working for the few - Political capture and economic inequality [1]

Economic inequality is rapidly increasing in the majority of countries. The wealth of the world is divided in two: almost half going to the richest one percent; the other half to the remaining 99 percent. The World Economic Forum has identified this as a major risk to human progress. Extreme economic inequality and political capture are too often interdependent. Left unchecked, political institutions become undermined and governments overwhelmingly
serve the interests of economic elites to the detriment of ordinary people. Extreme inequality is not inevitable, and it can and must be reversed quickly.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2014
Oxfam [2]
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Poverty [3], India [4], China [5], Indonesia [6], Pakistan [7], Nigeria [8], Statistics [9], Politics [10], Governance [11], United States Of America (US) [12], Europe [13], Corruption [14], Africa [15], Education [16], Women [17], Ghana [18], South America [19], Anti-Poverty Programmes [20]

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