A new study by U.S.-based academics has found that ending global poverty could be “surprisingly affordable,” requiring about 0.3% — or $318 billion — of global gross domestic product (GDP) to reduce ...

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The collective wealth of about 3,000 world’s billionaires has grown by $6.5 trillion in the last decade, resulting in their total net worth being 14.6% of the global GDP. World Bank Group – ...

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Posters featuring portraits of several world leaders line a road in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 20, 2025, ahead of the G20 summit to be held there. Credit: AP foto/Themba Hadebe ...

Billionaires in the world's leading economies made $2.2 trillion last year, which would have been enough to lift all the world's poor out of poverty, global campaign group Oxfam said Thursday.