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World’s billionaires have more wealth than 4.6 billion people

The world’s 2,153 billionaires have more wealth than the 4.6 billion people who make up 60 percent of the planet’s population, reveals a new Oxfam report.

Global inequality is shockingly entrenched and vast and the number of billionaires has doubled in the last decade.

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