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<p><font style="font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.worldwewant2015.org/node/419884" target="_blank">Working for the Few: Political capture and economic inequality</a></font><br>
<font style="font-size:11px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(102,102,102);line-height:17px"><a href="http://www.worldwewant2015.org/user/35175" target="_blank"></a></font><br><br></p><p>Report
from OxFam (Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, Head of Research, Oxfam GB; Nicholas
Galasso, Research and Policy Advisor, Oxfam America)<br><br>Almost half
of the world’s wealth is now owned by just one percent of the
population, and seven out of ten people live in countries where economic
inequality has increased in the last 30 years. The World Economic Forum
has identified economic inequality as a major risk to human progress,
impacting social stability within countries and threatening security on a
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scale.<br><br>This massive concentration of economic resources in the
hands of fewer people presents a real threat to inclusive political and
economic systems, and compounds other inequalities – such as those
between women and men. Left unchecked, political institutions are
undermined and governments overwhelmingly serve the interests of
economic elites – to the detriment of ordinary people.<br><br>In this
paper, Oxfam shows how extreme inequality is not inevitable, with
examples of policies from around the world which have reduced inequality
and developed more representative politics, benefiting all, both rich
and poor. Oxfam calls on leaders at the 2014 World Economic Forum at
Davos to make the commitments needed to counter the growing tide of
inequality.<br><br>Full report here: <a href="http://www.oxfam.org/en/policy/working-for-the-few-economic-inequality" target="_blank">http://www.oxfam.org/en/policy/working-for-the-few-economic-inequality</a></p></td></tr>
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