Bangladesh, Jan. 24 -- The Oxfam report on global inequality published only days before the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland has once again confirmed that the gap between the rich and poor is widening. As reported, 2,153 billionaires the world over now have in their possession more wealth than 4.6 billion people comprising 60 per cent of the population on the planet. The report finds the inequality incorrigibly entrenched and vast favouring the rich so much so that the number of billionaires has doubled in the past decade.
People have come across similar shocking reports in the past, one of which claimed that only one per cent of the planet's inhabitants have at disposal 50 per cent of the global wealth and the rest 99 per cent h...