Oxfam: 62 supermiliardari have as the poorest half of the population – The Republic

Milan – The economic and financial world is preparing for the summit in Davos and the non-governmental organization Oxfam reminds everyone what is the big gap between rich and poor that still carry with us: accumulated assets from 1% of the richest in the world has exceeded last year that 99% of the world population, with a year ahead of schedule. The data arrives just when other research says that absolute poverty has contracted more than expected, but that does not detract from the gap of the gap between those who have much and those little or nothing. The gap between the super rich and the rest of the population has increased “dramatically in the last 12 months,” notes the Oxfam report titled “economy at the service of 1%.”

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This is not the only impressive figure collected by the NGO. In the report it is said that the world’s richest 62 supermiliardari have a wealth equivalent to that of the poorest half of the world population. The NGO uses data coming from Forbes, which ranks the world’s richest Bill Gates in the head, then Carlos Slim and Warren Buffett on the podium, just to mention the first.

Since 2010, 3.6 billion people, half the world’s population, has seen its share of the wealth decline of around $ 1,000 billion, a decrease of 41%, despite the increase in population has registered 400 million births in the same period. The 62 super-rich have instead recorded an increase of over $ 500 billion, bringing to a total of 1.76 trillion dollars, in an environment that continues to leave women in a position of serious disadvantage (even among the 62 super-rich only nine are women), it is the analysis of Oxfam. A situation of inequality that exists in Italy.

The data on the distribution of the national wealth in 2015 show that the richest 1% of Italians in possession of 23.4% of net national wealth. A share, one registered in Italy by Oxfam, which, in absolute terms amounted to 39 times the wealth of the poorest 20% of our compatriots. Also significant to note that the increase of wealth from 2000 to 2015 has not been equally distributed: more than half is destined to benefit the richest 10% of Italians. For “not undermine progress in the fight against poverty” achieved in the last quarter century, Oxfam then asks world leaders to “act urgently against soaring inequality, starting with the first step: the banning of havens tax “. And to achieve the purpose launches online petition “Challenge injustice! Tell just tax havens”.

An additional part of the report covers the offshore investment: 2000-2014 quadrupled and it is estimated that 7,600 billions of dollars of wealth from private individuals (a sum equivalent to three-quarters of the net wealth of Italian families in 2015) is deposited in tax havens. If the income generated by this wealth were paying taxes, it is noted, governments would provide $ 190 billion more each year.

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