Dhaka, Dec. 10 -- The world has tipped into a level of inequality that fewer than 60,000 people now control three times as much wealth as the bottom half of humanity, according to the World Inequality Report 2026.

The Guardian reported that the study, compiled by 200 researchers, depicts a world in which financial power has concentrated at unprecedented levels, leaving billions with only a sliver of global income and wealth.

The study paints a stark picture of an economic system where the richest 10 percent earn more than the remaining 90 percent combined, while the poorest half of the world captures less than 10 percent of global income.

According to the study, wealth -- the value of assets -- is even more concentrated than income: th...