{"id":30020,"date":"2019-01-21T15:22:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30020"},"modified":"2019-01-21T15:22:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:22:33","slug":"top-26-billionaires-are-as-wealthy-as-3-8-billion-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30020","title":{"rendered":"Top 26 billionaires are as wealthy as 3.8 billion people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN Business)<\/cite>The world&#8217;s billionaires are growing $2.5 billion richer every day, while the poorest half of the global population is seeing its net worth dwindle.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Billionaires, who now number a record 2,208, have more wealth than ever before, according to an Oxfam International report published Monday. Since the global financial crisis a decade ago, the number of billionaires has nearly doubled.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The annual study was released ahead of the yearly World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which brings together some of the wealthiest and most influential people on Earth. The 106-page report is meant to call attention to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/15\/opinions\/billionaires-reach-for-the-stars-while-world-suffers-sachs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">growing gap<\/a> between rich and poor.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN Business)The world&#8217;s billionaires are growing $2.5 billion richer every day, while the poorest half of the global population is seeing its net worth dwindle.Billionaires, who now number a record 2,208, have more wealth than ever before, according to an Oxfam International report published Monday. Since the global financial crisis a decade ago, the number&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}