The rich and the poor

The world's richest one percent have seen their income increased by sixty percent in the last twenty years. According to the British charity group Oxfam, 100 of the richest people earned more the 240 billion dollars in 2012, enough to end the world's extreme poverty four times over. In the mist of the economic crisis their income is the rise, in fact they are making more money. Dangote cement made a net profit of 190 billion naira in 2012.