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  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20 The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.
  • Kosovo Urged to Increase Minimum Wage

    KOSOVO, 2013/09/04 The Economic and Social Council, established by the Kosovo parliament, has proposed increasing the minimum wage to about 65 % of the current average wage. The council met on Wednesday to harmonize a draft proposition on the minimum wage, which has to be sent to the Ministry of Finance by August 31. In 2011, the government set the minimum wage for employees aged less than 35 at 130 euro a month, while those over 35 are entitled to 170.