{"id":18732,"date":"2014-10-30T21:53:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T21:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am?p=18732"},"modified":"2014-11-01T21:18:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T21:18:03","slug":"%d6%86%d5%ab%d5%b6%d5%a1%d5%b6%d5%bd%d5%a1%d5%af%d5%a1%d5%b6-%d5%b3%d5%a3%d5%b6%d5%a1%d5%aa%d5%a1%d5%b4%d5%ab%d6%81-%d5%ab-%d5%be%d5%a5%d6%80-%d5%b4%d5%ab%d5%ac%d5%ab%d5%a1%d6%80%d5%a4%d5%a1%d5%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/%d6%86%d5%ab%d5%b6%d5%a1%d5%b6%d5%bd%d5%a1%d5%af%d5%a1%d5%b6-%d5%b3%d5%a3%d5%b6%d5%a1%d5%aa%d5%a1%d5%b4%d5%ab%d6%81-%d5%ab-%d5%be%d5%a5%d6%80-%d5%b4%d5%ab%d5%ac%d5%ab%d5%a1%d6%80%d5%a4%d5%a1%d5%bf\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to end extreme inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amwp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/even_it_up_report1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The report entitled\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org\/en\/research\/time-end-extreme-inequality?utm_source=oxf.am&amp;utm_medium=CvQ&amp;utm_content=redirect\">Even It Up: Time to End Extreme Inequality<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>presents new evidence that the gap between rich and poor is growing ever wider and is undermining poverty eradication.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Since the financial crisis the number of billionaires has more than doubled and in that same period at least a million mothers died in childbirth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Oxfam has calculated that in 2014 the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forbesinsights\/2014\/03\/25\/the-67-people-as-wealthy-as-the-worlds-poorest-3-5-billion\/\">richest<\/a>\u00a0 85 people on the planet owned as much as the poorest half of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Last year the richest 85 people saw their wealth increase by half a million dollars every minute.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Seven out of ten people live in countries where the gap between the rich and poor is worse than thirty years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Today there are 16 billionaires in sub-Saharan Africa, alongside the 358 million people living in extreme poverty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Every year, 100 million people are pushed into poverty because they have to pay for health care.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Without action, it will take 75 years to achieve equal pay between men and women.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Oxfam&#8217;s report is a timely reminder that any real effort to end poverty has to confront the public policy choices that create and sustain inequality.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>\u2014\u00a0Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"newstxt\">&nbsp; The report entitled\u00a0Even It Up: Time to End Extreme Inequality\u00a0\u00a0presents new evidence that the gap between rich and poor is growing ever wider and is undermining poverty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-120","category-125"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}