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格差は拡大しているか：OECD 諸国における所得分配と貧困長期的に見て所得格差は拡大しているのか。所得格差の拡大で誰が得をし、誰が損をしているのか。... 本報告書はOECD 加盟先進国30 カ国を対象としたものであり、少なくとも1980 年代半ばから、おそらくは1970 年代半ばから、所得格差が拡大していることを示している。... 児童貧困率は上昇しており ... 。多くの国は政策上、児童貧困率の上昇に現在より注視する必要がある。... 格差縮小への唯一の持続可能な方法は賃金と資本所得の根本的な拡大に歯止めをかけることである。特に、人々が就職でき、自身と家族を貧困状態に陥らせないだけの賃金を稼得できるようにしなければならない。
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Income inequality and poverty rising in most OECD countries21/10/2008 - The gap between rich and poor has grown in more than three-quarters of OECD countries over the past two decades, according to a new OECD report.
OECD’s Growing Unequal? finds that the economic growth of recent decades has benefitted the rich more than the poor. In some countries, such as Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway and the United States, the gap also increased between the rich and the middle-class.
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
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Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries Income inequality and poverty rising (Video)
Growing Unequal? : Income Distribution and
Poverty in OECD Countries
Summary in EnglishHas income inequality increased over time? Who has gained and who has lost in this process? Has this process affected all OECD countries uniformly? ...This report looks at the 30 developed countries of the OECD. It shows that there has been an increase in income inequality that has gone on since at least the mid-1980s ... child poverty has increased, ... The increase in child poverty deserves more policy attention than it is currently receiving in many countries. ... The only sustainable way to reduce inequality is to stop the underlying widening of wages and income from capital. ... In particular, we have to make sure that people are capable of being in employment and earning wages that keep them and their families out of poverty.Gap between rich, poor growing, OECD findsBERLIN (AFP) — The gap between rich and poor has grown in most developed countries over the past 20 years, leading to an increase in child poverty, ... 'More inequality' in rich nationsThe gap between rich and poor in most wealthy nations has widened, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has said. Across the 24 OECD countries where data was available, the cumulative rise in inequality was 7% over the past 20 years ...Unequal growth, unequal recession?A B Atkinson, Nuffield College, Oxford
Whether the burden of any recession is felt by some social groups and countries more than others depends largely on public policy. ... Small savers, as well as bankers, are affected by the financial crisis. Is it a case of “heads, the rich gain; tails, the poor lose”? ... If governments can take on the role of lender of last resort, then we should be willing to see government as the employer of last resort. .
