She, like all too many in her and other similar organisations, confuse inequality and poverty. Poverty is not having either enough or indeed anything, inequality is having less than others. Yes, I'm afraid so, an entirely equal distribution of the economy would leave everyone below the US poverty line. The executive director of Oxfam International, Winnie Byanyima, told Q&A on Sunday that tackling economic equality around the world comes back to tax and who isn't paying their share. Oxfam’s mission is ‘a world without poverty’ – ‘a just world without poverty’, and we know that to tackle poverty, to end poverty, we must attack the structural causes of poverty, and they lie in this growing gap between rich and poor, this rising economic inequality.

Source: Forbes June 11, 2017 08:37 UTC