More than two-thirds of the richest 100 entities on the planet are corporations, not governments, new research has found. The World’s largest company by revenue, US retail behemoth Walmart, generated sales of more than half a trillion last year, more than the income of all but nine of the world’s 195 national governments. Corporations account for 157 of the 200 largest entities on the planet, according to a list compiled by Global Justice Now. The campaign group compared figures for government revenues from the CIA World Fact Book with company revenues from the Fortune 500 in order to highlight the growing financial ... (full story)