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The world's richest 225 people have a combined wealth of over $1 million million. (No, that is not a misprint.) What percentage of this wealth would be enough to provide basic education, and healthcare, adequate food and safe water and sanitation for all the world's people?





4%
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ANSWER: Only 4% of that wealth, $40 billion, would be enough to, in essence, end poverty world-wide.

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