In other words, the concentration of wealth in the world that continue. An explosion of inequalities compiled by the NGO Oxfam two days of the opening of the 45th Forum in Davos.
Inequalities increasingly dizzying
According to the study of the non-governmental organization, the accumulated wealth of the richest 1% next year will exceed that of the remaining 99%. Specifically since the terrible crisis of 2008-2009, inequality harden. The share of global wealth held by the richest 1% from 44% in 2009 to 48% in 2014 and is expected to exceed 50% in 2016!
"Super rich" fewer and fewer
If the number of poor people is growing again and again, the number of "super rich" decreases too but they see the value of their wealth soaring! The crisis has not gone through them. Thus, if in 2010, 388 people held as much as 3.5 billion people, the figure rose to 85 last year, he should even go down to 80 in 2016, according to Oxfam. "A dangerous situation that complicates a little the fight against global poverty" according to its CEO, Winnie Byanyima who will co-chair the Davos forum this year.
What do you do?
Oxfam calls for the organization this year of a global summit on taxation to rewrite international tax rules. The menu of this possible meeting, an agenda where we could find including the promotion of free public services, increased taxation of capital to ease the work, the introduction of minimum wages where they do not yet exist and real coordinated global fight against tax evasion.
The shock figures
- One billion people live on less than one euro a day
- One in nine in the world does not have enough to feed
- Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, was the richest man in the world in 2014 according to Forbes. With a fortune estimated at $ 76 billion, more than 9 billion in one year! He could buy almost a tenth of the city of Paris. This also equals the average wealth of 322,000 French households.
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