From next year, the richest one percent of the world’s population will more than half of the world’s wealth have. To stop a further increase in inequality, Oxfam is calling from the States several measures. Plays a central role dealing with tax evaders.
“The gap between the richest and the rest will quickly lower”, the British charity Oxfam said on Monday, two days before the opening of the annual World Economic Forum in Davos. Thus in 2009 included 44 percent of prosperity one percent of the world’s population. Last year the figure was 48 percent. 2016 he will grow to more than 50 percent. . In the group of the richest every adult has a capacity of 2.3 million euros
“extent of global inequality is simply staggering”
With them the steep slope, however, does not stop: Almost all of the freehold – 46 percent of 52 percent – is, according to Oxfam is currently in the hands of 20 percent of the world population. The remaining wealth of about 5.5 percent, the remaining 80 percent of humanity would share. “The scale of global inequality is simply staggering,” said Oxfam’s director Winnie Byanyima
In order to further increase in inequality to stop, Oxfam is calling from the States several measures: Tackling tax avoidance and tax evasion;. the taxation of capital rather than labor; the introduction of minimum wages and the improvement of public services. Governments must free himself from interest groups, “which are a fairer and more prosperous world in the way,” demanded Byanyima.
300 Heads of State and Government at the meeting
The growing inequality is one of the themes of the World Economic Forum, which will take place in Switzerland from Wednesday to Saturday. German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), French President François Hollande and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang have besides 300 other leaders and managers of businesses and civil society representatives announced their participation in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos
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