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Subject: [spiritof1848] concentrations of wealth ... (fwd)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:12:36 -0500
From: Nancy Krieger <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: 21 Mar 2000 17:17:36 -0000
From: Common Courage Political Literacy Course
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World’s Wealthiest in 1999
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1. Gates, William United States $90 billion
2. Buffett, Warren United States $36 billion
3. Allen, Paul Gardner United States $30 billion
4. Ballmer, Steven United States $19.5 billion
5. Anschutz, Philip United States $16.5 billion
6. Dell, Michael United States $16.5 billion
7. Walton, S. Robson United States $15.8 billion
8. Alsaud, Prince Alwaleed
Bin Talal Saudi Arabia $15 billion
9. Albrecht, Theo & Karl Germany $13.6 billion
10. Li Ka-shing and family Hong Kong $12.6 billion
>From a recently released report by the United Nations Development Program,
entitled “Human Development Report 1999” (UNHDR):
*“The income gap between the fifth of the world’s people living in the
richest countries and the fifth in the poorest was 74 to 1 in 1997, up
from 60 to 1 in 1990 and 30 to 1 in 1960.”
*“By the late 1990s the fifth of the world’s people living in the
highest income countries had86% of the world GDP (Gross Domestic
Product)—the bottom fifth just 1%.”
*“To sum up: the top fifth of the world’s people in the richest
countries enjoy 82% of the expanding export trade and 68% of foreign
direct investment—the bottom fifth, barely more than 1%.”
*“The net worth of the world’s 200 richest people increased from $440
billion to more than $1 trillion in just the four years from 1994 to
1998.”
*“The assets of the three richest people were more than the combined
GNP of the 48 least developed countries.” (Comprising some 600 million
people.)
*“The assets of the 200 richest people are more than the combined
income of 41% of the world’s people.”
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