There Are Two Sides to Today's Global Income Inequality

There Are Two Sides to Today's Global Income Inequality

The Globe and Mail, 1.22.18

Essay by Branko Milanovic, a visiting professor at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and an affiliated senior scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study. Milanovic notes the gathering of the world's richest and most powerful individuals at the World Economic Forum during a year in which their fortunes increased by $762 billion, enough to end extreme poverty seven times over.