22 of the world’s richest men have net worth greater than all 325 Million women in Africa

An Oxfam report from January 2020 highlights how wealthy the world’s richest men are compared to the rest of us

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2 min readJan 20, 2020

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Are you watching, Davos? With the sun beating down a woman in Zimbabwe pushes her wheelbarrow (Oxfam)

“Wealth inequality remains shockingly high.” This is the sobering conclusion of Oxfam’s latest report, published on the eve of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2020.

The 162 richest people on the planet boast the same wealth as the poorest 50 per cent — 3.85 billion — in the world.

And the world’s richest men? Well, we’ll come back to them

From Tuesday, January 21, close to 3,000 delegates — including 53 heads of state — from 117 countries, will participate in the WEF summit in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. According to the website blurb, the WEF Annual Meeting is “the foremost creative force for engaging the world’s top leaders in collaborative activities to shape global, regional and industry agendas at the beginning of each year”.

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