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The Real Story: One Rule for the Rich…

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One Rule for the Rich…

22/01/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - The Real Story, One Rule for the Rich…

Do the world's wealthiest people live by different rules from the rest of us?

The world’s wealthiest business executives and most influential politicians are meeting this weekend in the exclusive Swiss ski resort, Davos. They’ll be striking deals, making decisions that will affect all our lives and fawned over by the world’s media. But how accountable are they? Join Owen Bennett Jones and his guests as they discuss whether a tiny fraction of the world’s wealthiest live by different rules when it comes to national laws, taxation and citizenship, and if so whether this is a problem – do the super-rich bring benefits to us all?

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