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A Nepalese homeless man sits and waits for alms near Pashupatinath temple premises in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, January 18, 2016. The world's political and business elite are being urged to do more than pay lip service to growing inequalities around the world as they head off for this week's World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos. According to Oxfam, the scale of the problem is increasingly stark: just 62 people, it says, own the same wealth as half the planet. The compares with 388 people just five years ago, when the global economy was just emerging from its deepest recession since World War II. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)
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