82% of the "new" earnings last year went to the accounts of the wealthiest people. At the same time about four billion of the poorest people received nothing from global profits.

Such data on Monday, January 22, in its report published an international association of organizations to combat poverty Oxfam. In particular, the report indicates that 3.7 billion people, who make up the poorest part of the world's population, did not receive anything from the global increased profits.

At the same time, from 2016 to 2017, the number of billionaires has increased unprecedently. The new billionaire appeared on average every two days. In total, there are 2,043 people in the world who are considered billionaires.

At the same time, Oxfam director Vinni Bianyima noted that the boom of billionaires is not talking about a flourishing economy, but about the collapse of the economic order.

In turn, the head of the Oxfam campaign in Germany, Jorg Kalinski, criticized the current state of affairs, saying that a rich minority en masse influences political decisions and in an irresponsible manner reduces costs? especially salaries and taxes? to increase the income of shareholders.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, the state of the world's 500 richest people in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, increased by almost one trillion dollars for 2017.