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Verdens ti største selskaber, inklusiv Apple, Shell og Walmart har en samlet indtægt der er større end samlede indtægt af de 180 "fattigste" ud af verdens samlede 195 suveræne stater.

Tallene, som viser at Walmart, Apple og Shell alene nu er rigere en Rusland, Belgien, og Sverige, blev frigivet af kampagnegruppen Global Justice Now.

69 af verdens øverste økonomiske enheder er nu selskaber i stedet for lande - en forøgelse fra sidste års forbløffende tal på 63. Ud af de største 200 enheder i verden er ikke mindre end 153 virksomheder.

USA, Kina, Tyskland, Japan, Frankrig og Storbritannien udgør de seks største økonomiske enheder efterfulgt af Italien, Brasilien og Canada.


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Den ene revolution afløser den anden: Reformationen blev kongemagtens opgør med kirken, så kom borgerskabets opgør med kongemagten, og nu er det de store lande og selskabers afvikling af borgernes og mindre staters magt:


"The vast wealth and power of corporations is at the heart of so many of the world's problems - like inequality and climate change," said Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now.

"The drive for short-term profits today seems to trump basic human rights for millions of people on the planet. These figures show the problem is getting worse," he added.

The London-based campaign group released the figures in an effort to put increased pressure on the British government ahead of their working group with the UN.

The meeting, led by Ecuador, was established with the aim of working towards a binding treaty that would ensure "transnational corporations abide by the full range of human rights responsibilities".

"The UK government has facilitated this rise in corporate power - through tax structures, trade deals and even aid programmes that help big business," said Dearden.

"Their wholehearted support for the US-EU trade deal TTIP, is just the latest example of government help to big business. Disgracefully it also routinely opposes the call of developing countries to hold corporations to account for their human rights impacts at the UN."