世界では、貧富の差が拡大して、この30年間に1%の世界の金持ちが10%から20%まで世界の富を所有、金持ちはますます金持ちに、貧乏人はますます増加して往く
COLUMNA
Los ricos, aún más ricos
La desigualdad social es un riesgo grave que amenaza también al crecimiento económico
Los servicios sociales ya atienden a más de ocho millones de personas
Gabriela Cañas Madrid 14 OCT 2012 - 22:07 CET
COLUMN
The rich, even richer
Social inequality is a serious risk that threatens economic growth also
Social services and serve more than eight million people
Cañas Gabriela Madrid 14 OCT 2012 - 22:07 CET
Perhaps it is an exaggeration to say that we are on the verge of World War III as it starts to say more than one, but more and more international organizations who suspect that growing inequality is the greatest risk that our societies will face in the next decade . The World Economic Forum, the IMF and the OECD have warned of the dangers of this drift that is registering the developed world in which-simplifying-the rich are few and getting richer, and the poor people are increasingly and profits decrease. The gap is growing. In the United States, data are outrageous. In that country, as noted by The Economist, 1% of the population has gone from more income wield 10% of the wealth to 20% in the last thirty years.
This phenomenon of rising income disparity between rich and poor, which began in 1980 and has accelerated with the crisis. The average salary on Wall Street, for example, have grown in full Great Depression during the last two years by 17% to 281,000 euros. In general, as told in this newspaper last Thursday Sandro Pozzi, salaries in the financial sector while cutting up templates.
Only Latin America and large parts of Africa, where we have no data to analyze the trend, are saved from a drift so outrageous. While wealth is concentrated and grows excessive, the middle class and the disadvantaged are impoverished to the limit. It is a dangerous and immoral derived in which he particularly Spain. The Gini index which measures the gap between rich and poor has skyrocketed since 2008, the starting year of the crisis, to make this the most unequal country in the eurozone. The economic and, above all, the political conditions are ruining one of the most important achievements of the Spanish democracy, which managed to place Spain among the countries with the highest human development in the world, an index that takes into account access general population to wealth, education and health.
Poverty alone does not generate enough social unrest to unleash a conflict of greater consequence. It is the inherent inequality and injustice involved in causing the worst tensions. Latin America largely due to his past political instability fact occupy the first place in social inequality. After the serious altercations experienced this summer in South Africa's mines is the fact that 80% of the world's platinum reserves are in that country as its population not just benefit.
The situation is explosive. In South Africa, as in Greece, and Spain, unemployment now affects a quarter of the workforce. These countries, however, where there is great wealth, stratospheric salaries and again cutting economic policies radically liberal as light rain, a part of society accepts as natural. The same day that Oliver Wyman stood at 53.745 million euros needs to be sanitized Spanish banks, in some public gatherings are not talking about the unbearable weight of these poorly managed financial institutions that have lost so much money-or off-and now must be rescued. No. There was talk that the welfare state we have is unsustainable. And since this is the mantra of those who govern, the obvious result is an unfair transfer of money from taxpayers to those entities.
The good news is that international organizations are NGOs suddenly become sensitive to human suffering. The news is that such organizations are realizing that social inequality, as well as being a time bomb, can undermine economic growth. This was seen, for example, the IMF. So, for whatever reason, maybe because we are not on the verge of World War III, but on the threshold of a correction that is urgent to prevent worse damage, even for the rich. Economic policies must change and they should not forget that again cuts erode their education, health and social services in general is the worst mistake has been committed.
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