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Richest 1% bag two-thirds of $42 trillion in new wealth: Oxfam

The World Economic Forum is meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this week to discuss issues of global concern [File: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters]

The world’s top 1 percent grabbed nearly two-thirds of the $42 trillion in new wealth created since 2020, Oxfam says in a new report released to coincide with the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

The share was almost twice as much money as the amount obtained by the bottom 99 percent of the world’s population, according to Oxfam’s “Survival of the Richest” report released on Monday.

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