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Meanwhile, the International Publishers Association last week sent a stern letter to Ahmadinejad complaining about the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance rules that are "preventing local writers and publishers from issuing new books"-de facto censorship that violates Iran's freedom-of-expression obligation under international accords.
Tallying Up the World's Wealth
They say life's not fair, and now some economists at the United Nations University in Helsinki, Finland, are showing just how unfair: The richest 2 percent of adults on Earth own more than half the household wealth in the entire world. People living in North America, Europe, and high-income Asia-Pacific countries together hold 90 percent of global wealth, according to UNU's World Institute for Development Economics Research. If you have net household assets exceeding $61,000, then you are among the richest 10 percent in the world; have assets exceeding $500,000, then welcome to the richest 1 percent, a club that numbers around 37 million members. By the way, the bottom half of the world's adult population-some 1.8 billion-must make do with barely 1 percent of global wealth.
With Associated Press
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