樂施會：貧富不均現象日益嚴重

The richest 1 percent of people in the world will have a majority of the wealth on the planet next year, according to development nonprofit Oxfam.

The most-affluent’s share of global wealth climbed to 48 percent in 2014, compared with 44 percent in 2009, and will likely pass 50 percent in 2016.

The report was released Monday ahead of the annual World Economic Forum meeting this week in Davos, Switzerland.

Oxfam warned that the '"explosion in inequality"' is holding back the fight against global poverty at a time when one in nine people do not have enough to eat and more than a billion people still live on less than $1.25 a day.

In order to curb extreme inequality, Oxfam is calling upon states to tackle tax evasion, improve public services, tax capital rather than labor, and introduce living minimum wages, among other measures.國際發展與救援組織樂施會說，世界上1%最富有的人明年將擁有全球大部分財富。

2014年，最富有的這部分人擁有全球48%的財富，2009年的比例是44%，2016年則將超過50%。

這份報告於星期一發表，世界經濟論壇年度會議本週將在瑞士城市達沃斯召開。

樂施會警告說，不平等的急劇增長阻礙了消除全球貧窮現象的努力。目前世界上每9個人裏就有一個人吃不飽，10億多人每天的生活費不到1.25美元。

爲了遏制極端的不平等現象，樂施會敦促各國打擊逃稅行爲、改善公共服務、對資本而不是對勞動課稅以及規定最低工資標準。