{"id":12615,"date":"2013-10-10T23:06:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T22:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12615"},"modified":"2013-10-10T23:06:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T22:06:40","slug":"how-fairly-is-global-wealth-distributed-among-the-worlds-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12615","title":{"rendered":"How fairly is global wealth distributed among the world&#8217;s citizens?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our estimates for mid-2013 indicate that once debts have been subtracted, an adult requires just USD 4,000 in assets to be in the wealthiest half of world citizens. However, a person needs at least USD 75,000 to be a member of the top 10% of global wealth holders, and USD 753,000 to belong to the top 1%. Taken together, the bottom half of the global population own less\u00a0than 1% of total wealth. In sharp contrast, the richest 10% hold 86% of the world\u2019s wealth, and the top 1% alone account for 46% of global assets.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is an extract from <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.credit-suisse.com\/tasks\/render\/file\/?fileID=BCDB1364-A105-0560-1332EC9100FF5C83\">this year&#8217;s &#8220;Global Wealth Report&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0produced by the Credit Suisse Research Institute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Our estimates for mid-2013 indicate that once debts have been subtracted, an adult requires just USD 4,000 in assets to be in the wealthiest half of world citizens. However, a person needs at least USD 75,000 to be a member of the top 10% of global wealth holders, and USD 753,000 to belong to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12619,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12615\/revisions\/12619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}