"Global inequality is much greater than inequality within any country": researcher.
from The Tyee
"The lead research economist at the World Bank, Branko Milanovic, will be reporting soon, in the journal Global Policy, the first calculation of global income inequality, and he has found that the top eight per cent of global earners are drawing 50 per cent of all of this planet's income.
"He notes: 'Global inequality is much greater than inequality within any individual country,' because the stark inequality between countries adds to the inequality within any one of them, and because most people live in extremely poor countries, largely the nations within three thousand miles of the Equator, where it's already too hot, even without the global warming that scientists say will heat the world much more from now on. …"
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