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The most comprehensive study of personal wealth ever undertaken also reports that the richest 1% of adults alone owned 40% of global assets in the year 2000,
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and that the richest 10% of adults accounted for 85% of the world total.
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In contrast, the bottom half of the world adult population owned barely 1% of global wealth.
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Assets of the world's 3 richest men(!) exceed the combined gross domestic products of the 48(!) poorest nations on the planet.*

*This factoid from Thom Hartman's book, Unequal Protection

	Distribution of Wealth
	The World Distribution of Household Wealth report by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University: $ The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of global household wealth according to a path-breaking study released by the Helsinki-based World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER). $ The most comprehensive study of personal wealth ever undertaken also reports that the richest 1% of adults alone owned 40% of global assets in the year 2000, $ and that the richest 10% of adults accounted for 85% of the world total. $ In contrast, the bottom half of the world adult population owned barely 1% of global wealth. $ Assets of the world's 3 richest men(!) exceed the combined gross domestic products of the 48(!) poorest nations on the planet.* *This factoid from Thom Hartman's book, Unequal Protection

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