{"id":1823,"date":"2015-10-13T22:21:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T15:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/half-of-worlds-wealth-now-in-hands-of-1-of-population-report\/"},"modified":"2016-01-18T08:58:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T01:58:03","slug":"half-of-worlds-wealth-now-in-hands-of-1-of-population-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/half-of-worlds-wealth-now-in-hands-of-1-of-population-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of world's wealth now in hands of 1% of population \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nInequality growing globally and in the UK, which has third most \u2018ultra-high net worth individuals\u2019, household wealth study findsGlobal inequality is growing, with half the world\u2019s wealth now in the hands of just 1% of the population, according to a new report.The middle classes have been squeezed at the expense of the very rich, according to research by Credit Suisse, which also finds that for the first time, there are more individuals in the middle classes in China \u2013 109m \u2013 than the 92m in the US. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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