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		<title>Income inequality in Capitalist Structures: Live and Let Die?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tara Gallagher]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent Oxfam report An Economy for the 1% (Oxfam International 18/01/16) has received widespread international attention for reporting the growing economic disparity between the world’s richest and poorest. The startling figure that resonated with international media was the revelation that 62 of the world’s richest people own the same amount of wealth as half the world – some 3.6 billion people. The report revealed that the wealth of the world’s poorest half of the population has decreased by a trillion dollars since 2010, while the wealth of the 62 richest people has increased by more than half a trillion dollars. Oxfam are urging world leaders to take immediate action to tackle the ‘’inequality crisis’’. A report on income inequality from the OECD in 2014 also revealed that the gap between rich and poor is at its highest peak in 30 years. The OECD urged world leaders to note that this level of income inequality not only harms societies but the growth of economies, too. It seems that the post-crash period is an era fiercely dominated by crises; the global financial crisis, the humanitarian crisis in Syria, the European migrant crisis, a crisis of demographics for an ageing Europe, a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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