James S Henry, former chief economist for McKinsey and now steering committee member for the Tax Justice Network, presented global
wealth distribution figures in 2012 to illustrate this point.
Not exact matches
For example, between 1960 and 1980, the
figure above quoted had fallen to around 25 per cent, but the following decades of aggressive neo-liberal economic - corporate globalization we could witness alarming inequalities in the
distribution of
wealth and income that we have ever witnessed in the history of humankind.
The University of Birmingham established a Policy Commission on the
Distribution of
Wealth in September of last year to bring leading
figures from the public, private and third sectors together with Birmingham academics to generate new thinking on this issue.
Figures from WAS data for 2008 - 10 show that the
distribution of household
wealth is highly skewed towards the wealthiest 10 percent of households, who owned 44 percent of all household
wealth in 2008 - 10, equivalent to # 4.5 trillion.