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In 2020, the inequality between rich and poor has increased significantly. The former, owners of almost all financial assets, favored by the pressures of the economy and the markets of governments and central banks, the latter dealing with an increase in unemployment that cut income from work. To say it, the good thing is also the United Nations Organization according to which Covid has increased unemployment, hunger, the number of people who need food aid, the children who will no longer go to school in the world. What we are experiencing “is not only a global health crisis, but also a serious economic and labor crisis that has a huge impact on people,” said the director general of the International Labor Organization. Guy ryder. The United Nations predicts, in fact, that in 2021 they will be 235 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. This increase of around 40% compared to 2020 is almost entirely a consequence of the pandemic.
The greatest impact of the crisis that the world is going through then weighs on in women, whose poverty rate has increased by more than 9%, reversing decades of progress to eradicate extreme poverty. To overcome all this, according to the UN, a ‘new deal‘. The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres believes that the levels of poverty and inequality observed this year are far from being inevitable and that a more just world is still possible, regardless of the acute crises that may come, such as the covid-19. So Guterres expressed the hope that the pandemic could trigger the transformations needed to strengthen social protection systems. The world, according to the head of the United Nations, needs a global New Deal “in which power, resources and opportunities are better shared at international decision-making tables “and in which” governance mechanisms better reflect current realities. “
In many states, from Great Britain to Spain, passing through California and Argentina, a tax on great wealth is being reasoned again, or applied, to face the economic efforts linked to the pandemic. Il Fattoquotidiano.it launched a petition, now with 70 thousand signatures, pressure Parliament to consider introducing a wealth tax of more than € 50 million. A rate that would affect less than 3,000 people in Italy but could generate income up to 10 billion euros.
Among the economic consequences of Covid-19 could also be an acceleration of the time for China to overtake the US in terms of the size of the Gross Domestic Product. According to the Center Economics and Business Research, overtaking could occur as early as 2028, that’s 5 years earlier than estimated so far. Not forgetting that China has a population approximately 4 times that of the United States, so in terms of GDP per capita the distance between the two countries is still stark. China is estimated to grow 2% this year, the only major economy growing. US GDP will contract by 5% in 2020, allowing Beijing to narrow the gap. Overall, world GDP is Cebr’s estimate, will fall this year by 4.4%, in what is the largest annual contraction since World War II.
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