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Population News Wednesday December 6th 2006

40% of world's wealth owned by 1% of population
(CBC: Tue, 05 Dec) The richest one per cent of the world's population owns 40 per cent of the total household wealth, while the bottom half makes due with barely one per cent, according to a report released Tuesday.

World wealth gap massive
(The Manila Times: Wed, 06 Dec) HELSINKI, Finland: The world's richest 2 percent of adults own more than half of global household wealth, while half the world's population own only 1 percent, a UN report showed.

World's wealth narrows further
(The Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Wed, 06 Dec) Experts have long worried about the skewed distribution of the world's income, with vast rewards massing in the hands of a wealthy elite and precious little left over for the vast majority of the global population.

Canada in richest 2% of global population: study
(CTV.ca: Wed, 06 Dec) Canadians are among the richest two per cent of the global population who control more than half of the world's wealth, a United Nations study released Tuesday has found.

U.N. study says 2% of adults in the world own half the global wealth
(EARTHtimes.org: Wed, 06 Dec) Just 2 per cent of the adults in the world command more than half of the global wealth, says a new U.N. study. The poorer half of the population owns just 1 per cent of the wealth, it added.

GCC's credit card spending second highest in the world
(Gulf News: Wed, 06 Dec) Dubai: The UAE, with a population of nearly five million, has some 1.8 million credit card users and average spending by cards in the region is the second highest in the world, a banker said yesterday.

Richest 2 pc own half of world's wealth, finds new study
(New Kerala: Wed, 06 Dec) London, Dec 6: A new study conducted by the Helsinki-based World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) has revealed that the richest two percent of the world's population own more than half of global household wealth.

World’s richest 2pc own half global wealth: UN
(News From Bangladesh: Wed, 06 Dec) Agence France-Presse . Helsinki -The world's richest two per cent of adults own more than half of global household wealth, while half the world's population own only one per cent, a UN report published on Tuesday showed.

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