Global Inequality

To a large extent, the reality of global inequality is ignored or at best downplayed. However, this has not always been the case. Indeed, in the early 1950s, the first UN resolutions on development focused on inequality rather than poverty. Unfortunately,...

Forbes “Billionaires List” shows rich getting richer

While the editor in chief of “Forbes” magazine, Steve Forbes claims that the number of new billionaires in the world is a clear sign that the economies around the globe are recovering from their near-total collapse, the reality of the latest...

Russian billionaires lose 66% of fortune

Russian business magazine Finans publishes the country’s “rich list”. This year’s list has not only been halved to 49 billionaires Share