global Inequality

EghtesadOnline: Even before the final communique is drafted for the annual G20 summit the leaders of the world’s largest economies already seemed to agree on their most pressing priority: to find a way to sell the benefits of globalization to an increasingly skeptical public.

EghtesadOnline: The current condition of global economic inequality should be of concern to all. An Oxfam report published this year titled, “An economy for the 1%”, revealed that “the richest 1% now have more wealth than the rest of the world combined.”