The divisions brought out by the Syrian refugee crisis, she said, highlighted the issue of global inequality.
Winnie Byanyima, executive director of Oxfam International, said: "The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering, and despite the issues shooting up the global agenda, the gap between the richest and the rest is widening fast.
"The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering and despite the issues shooting up the global agenda, the gap between the richest and the rest is widening fast," said Winnie Byanyima, executive director of Oxfam International.
The summit brings together leaders from 20 of the world's most powerful nations to discuss pressing international issues ― including U.S. President Donald Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin ― but also serves as a target for critics of global inequality. .
The within-country component of global inequality, however, has increased continuously over this twenty-year period.
The WHO data, made public last week, showed air pollution was a hallmark of global inequality.
Levels of global inequality remain extreme, with persistent high numbers of people in absolute poverty.
"Captain Phillips" takes explicit account of the fact of global inequality.
The Gini coefficient of global inequality fell from 69 in 2003 to 65 in 2013.
"Income inequality is one of the defining issues of our time," the leaker wrote under the pseudonym John Doe, adding that politicians, activists, and academics alike have tried to understand the reason behind the "sudden acceleration" of global inequality.
