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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.
  • Taiwan must address the challenges of an aging society

    TAIWAN AREA, 2013/10/13 Elderly people instantly account for 11.2 % of the country\'s people, according to a recent statement from the Taiwan Healthcare Reform Foundation (財團法人台灣醫療改革基金會). The document, which identifies Taiwan as one of the majority rapidly aging societies, should serve as a stark reminder to various government agencies of the potentially huge economic costs that lie ahead for the country; costs that will only be exacerbated by a declining birth rate. Not only are new policies required to foster people increase, inclunding better child birth policies and subsidies, but better incentives are as well needed to attract and retain blue- and white-collar migrant workers to offset any shortages in labor.