Social / CSR in Uruguay
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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.
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URUGUAY, 2013/12/26
Mujica defended the conduct of Lorenzo, his minister since March 2010, as local television broadcast images of the economist entering a criminal court home. “He has been a brilliant minister,” Mujica said. “We have no doubt about his ethical integrity and his positive commitment. He resigned to let Justice proceed in his condition as a simple citizen.”
The president added government will miss his loss and “will make its utmost to keep the current in general policy orientations which were designed by the presently resigned minister”.
Uruguay's economy minister Fernando Lorenzo resigned on Saturday in the face of questions over the alleged irregular sale of government-owned airplanes following the closure of Pluna, the country's flag carrier, President Jose Mujica announced at a brief press conference, with no questions taken, next to Vice president Danilo Astori.
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URUGUAY, 2013/01/06
If the world has an impoverished president, it may be Jose Mujica, the current chief of national in Uruguay, the South American country of some 3.3 million people that's about the size of Washington national.
As BBC News reports, President Mujica (pictured above) shunned the luxurious home that Uruguay provides for its leaders and stays at his wife's farmhouse, located off a dirt road outside the capital, Montevideo.
