Questão 25
UNESP 2015
(UNESP - 2015/2 - 1ª FASE)
Oxfam study finds richest 1% is likely to control half of global wealth by 2016
By Patricia Cohen
January 19, 2015
The world's business elite will meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Credit Jean-Christophe Bott/European Pressphoto Agency
The richest 1 percent is likely to control more than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the anti-poverty charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening global 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 altogether own 1.9 trillion dollars, the report found, nearly the same amount shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s income scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 percent of the population controls nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is also increasing.
The type of inequality that currently characterizes the world’s economies is unlike anything seen in recent years, the report explained. “Between 2002 and 2010 the total wealth of the poorest half of the world in current U.S. dollars had been increasing more or less at the same rate as that of billionaires,” it said. “However since 2010, it has been decreasing over that time.”
Winnie Byanyima, the charity’s executive director, noted in a statement that more than a billion people lived on less than $1.25 a day. “Do we really want to live in a world where the 1 percent own more than the rest of us combined?” Ms. Byanyima said. “The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering.”
Investors with interests in finance, insurance and health saw the biggest windfalls, Oxfam said. Using data from Forbes magazine’s list of billionaires, it said those listed as having interests in the pharmaceutical and health care industries saw their net worth jump by 47 percent. The charity credited those individuals’ rapidly growing fortunes in part to multimilliondollar lobbying campaigns to protect and enhance their interests.
(www.nytimes.com. Adaptado.)
According to the information presented in the second paragraph,
50% of the world’s wealth have been transferred to emerging middle-class since 2010.
the total number of billionaires in the world decreased from 85 to 80 last year.
the wealth pyramid has always been stable with the exception of some small fluctuations.
the richest 1% of the population owns the same amount as 85 billionaires in the world.
the amount owned by 80 wealthy people is almost equivalent to the one owned by 3.5 billion poorest people.
Gabarito:
the amount owned by 80 wealthy people is almost equivalent to the one owned by 3.5 billion poorest people.
Resolução:
O segundo parágrafo é o seguinte:
The 80 wealthiest people in the world altogether own 1.9 trillion dollars, the report found, nearly the same amount shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s income scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 percent of the population controls nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is also increasing.
a) INCORRETA, uma vez que o parágrafo não menciona isso de transferência de renda.
b) INCORRETA, considerando que o parágrafo fala, na verdade, que o número de bilionários necessários para atingir a soma de 1,9 trilhões de dólares aumentou de 80 para 85 em um ano.
c) INCORRETA, posto que o parágrafo não comenta que a pirâmide de riqueza é estável.
d) INCORRETA, visto que o segundo parágrafo comenta que o 1% mais rico controla quase a metade do total da riqueza mundial.
e) CORRETA, já que o texto fala que 3,5 bilhões de pessoas são necessárias para igualar a riqueza de 80 pessoas ricas, ou seja, o montante possuído pelas 80 pessoas ricas é equivalente ao de 3,5 bilhões de pessoas.