The ten richest Africans own as much as the poorest half of the continent | Let’s Talk Development
▻http://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/ten-richest-africans-own-much-poorest-half-continent
In January 2014, Oxfam released a widely-cited briefing paper which argued that the richest 85 people in the world owned more than the poorest half of the population in 2013 (Oxfam, 2014).[1] In this blog post I estimate this statistic for Africa. The blog builds on background research for an upcoming flagship report “The State of Poverty and Inequality in Africa” led by the World Bank’s Africa Chief Economist Office. I find that the ten richest Africans own more than the bottom half of the continent.
Calculating this number requires two ingredients: (1) The wealth of the richest people, and (2) the distribution of wealth around the world (and by region) to estimate the total wealth of the bottom 50%.
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