Distribuição desigual do crescimento económico – alguns países cada vez mais pobres

Segundo a instituição New Economics Foundation (NEF), uma instituição independente de pesquisa da Grã-Bretanha, citada pelo Expresso, a última década fez aumentar o fosso entre os países «mais pobres» e os «mais ricos» do mundo, revela o estudo «O Crescimento não está a funcionar: a distribuição desigual de custos e benefícios do crescimento económico».
Segundo os investigadores da NEF, «os dados mostram que o crescimento económico sozinho não gera distribuição de rendimento, como defendem algumas receitas económicas ortodoxas». Um dos exemplos citados é o caso do Brasil, que, apesar de ser uma das maiores economias mundias, poderia levar 304 anos a atingir o mesmo nível de distribuição do rendimento dos países ricos.

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Growth isn’t working: the uneven distribution of benefits and costs from economic growth

The report shows that globalisation is failing the world’s poorest as their share of the benefits of growth plummet, and accelerating climate change hurts the poorest most.
“The report, the first in nef's series of 'Re-thinking poverty' reports, reveals that the share of benefits from global economic growth reaching the world’s poorest people is actually shrinking, while they continue to bear an unfair share of the costs. New figures show that growth was less effective at passing on benefits to the poorest in the 1990’s than it was even in the 1980’s- the so-called ‘lost decade for development’ - and an age of rising climate chaos will worsen their prospects. The report says that the notion that global economic growth is the only way of reducing poverty for the world’s poorest people is the self-serving rhetoric of those who already enjoy the greatest share of world income. It's authors argue that to achieve real progress we need to change in the way we think about and discuss economic issues, and break out of the confines of mainstream economic thinking. We also need a shift in power relations, both globally and nationally, to move power from developed countries, elites and commercial interests to the majority of the world’s population, the poor.”

[nef is an independent think-and-do tank that inspires and demonstrates real economic well-being. Nef aims to improve quality of life by promoting innovative solutions that challenge mainstream thinking on economic, environment and social issues. It was founded in 1986 by the leaders of The Other Economic Summit (TOES) which forced issues such as international debt onto the agenda of the G7 and G8 summits.]