Despite the economic downturn of recent years, bank accounts of the worldöÏÓãÊÓƵapp billionaires have  grown deliberately fatter as the financial canyon between rich and poor has widened. It has reached a point that by 2016 the worldöÏÓãÊÓƵapp richest one per cent could own more than half the planetöÏÓãÊÓƵapp wealth.