Before development organization Oxfam warns in a research report published Monday.
In 2009, possessed the richest 1 percent of the world 44 percent of global output in 2014 is increased to 48 percent. If this growth continues, the richest own Oxfam Novib in 2016, more than half of all the power in the world.
“The scale of global inequality is mind-boggling, and despite the global attention to the subject, the gap between the richest and the rest getting bigger,” said Farah Karimi, Executive Director Oxfam Novib.
According to Karimi is time that the government will intervene:. “The government must take action, the tax on capital increases and taxes on labor and consumption must be reduced A progressive tax system would be good this way.. the less fortunate to spend more and more wealthy deliver something more. ”
Self earned the general director of Oxfam Novib in 2013, nearly three times the average income (104 367 euro gross) per year. “I’m not going to be hypocritical. I am certainly willing to pay. More tax”
begins Wednesday in Davos, the annual World Economic Forum. At that meeting, talk and discuss world leaders, economists and executives of multinational companies on social and economic world problems.
Some members of the government have also had an invitation, as Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Lilianne Ploumen, Minister of Finance and Chairman of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem and Minister for Health, Welfare and Sport Edith Schippers.
Klaas Knot, president of De Nederlandsche Bank and European Commissioner Frans Timmermans had an invitation
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