{"id":6826,"date":"2025-12-12T10:27:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=6826"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:27:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:27:51","slug":"top-1-own-nearly-a-quarter-of-bangladeshs-wealth-global-inequality-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=6826","title":{"rendered":"Top 1% Own Nearly a Quarter of Bangladesh\u2019s Wealth, Global Inequality Report Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wealth and income in Bangladesh remain heavily concentrated among a small elite, with the richest 10% holding 58% of total wealth and the top 1% alone controlling nearly one-quarter, according to the <em>Global Inequality Report 2026<\/em> from the Paris School of Economics. By contrast, the bottom 50% of Bangladeshis collectively own just 4.7% of national wealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The income picture is similarly skewed: the top 10% capture about 41% of national income, while the bottom half share only 19%. Inequality has scarcely budged over the past decade; the gap between the richest and poorest narrowed only marginally from 22 to 21 (2014\u20132024), the report notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Measured at purchasing power parity, Bangladesh\u2019s average annual per-capita income is \u20ac6,100 (\u2248\u09f3873,154), and average wealth per adult stands at \u20ac30,000 (\u2248\u09f34,294,200). The study also highlights persistent gender gaps, with women\u2019s labor force participation at just 22.3%, indicating a structural drag on inclusive growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite rapid economic transformation, overall inequality in Bangladesh shows \u201cno major change,\u201d the report concludes, urging stronger policy action to balance income and wealth distribution. Globally, it finds three-quarters of personal wealth is held by the wealthiest 10%, including 37% by the top 1%, underscoring an entrenched concentration of assets worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wealth and income in Bangladesh remain heavily concentrated among a small elite, with the richest 10% holding 58% of total wealth and the top 1% alone controlling nearly one-quarter, according to the Global Inequality Report 2026 from the Paris School of Economics. By contrast, the bottom 50% of Bangladeshis collectively own just 4.7% of national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6835,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions\/6835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}