Remarks by Angel Gurría Secretary-General OECD, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, 26 February 2014
(As prepared for delivery)
Ladies and Gentlemen:
It is a great honour to be here at the Council on Foreign Relations
(CFR) to address one of the most pressing challenges of our times:
rising inequalities.
The need to tackle inequalities has been at the top of the OECD’s
agenda for years. In 2008 we launched a first wake-up call with a study
named “Growing Unequal?”.
Please note the question mark! At the time we were still uncertain
about the trends… Three years later we produced a new shocking study
named “Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising”. Unfortunately, no need for a question mark here.
The evidence in these studies speaks for itself: inequality had been
rising in nearly all OECD countries during the last decades. The
financial and economic crisis has accelerated this trend.
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