Slow Growth Clouds Fight Against Poverty

(Jan. 19) – Greed knows no bounds, and it defies all expectations. It seems only yesterday when we denounced the fact that 85 affluent individuals shared a combined wealth equivalent to that shared by 3.5 billion of the world’s population. Today, this number has dropped to 62 individuals, and their wealth is comparable to that of the poorest half of the world’s population.