Kloof tussen arm en rijk

De OESO publiceerde begin deze maand het boek 'Divided we stand: why inequality keeps rising' . De kloof tussen arm en rijk bleef de afgelopen 30 jaar stijgen binnen de 34 - overwegend welvarende - lidstaten van de OESO:
"The income gap has risen even in traditionally egalitarian countries, such as Germany, Denmark and Sweden, from 5 to 1 in the 1980s to 6 to 1 today. The gap is 10 to 1 in Italy, Japan, Korea and the United Kingdom, and higher still, at 14 to 1 in Israel, Turkey and the United States.
In Chile and Mexico, the incomes of the richest are still more than 25 times those of the poorest, the highest in the OECD, but have finally started dropping."(bron: website oecd.org)