Capitalism Today

• The poorest 20 percent of the world's people had their share of global income drop from 2.3% to 1.4%;

• The richest 20% climbed from 70.2 to 82.7%.

• The ratio of richest to poorest went from 30 to 1 in 1960, to 59 to 1 in 1989.

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