一份新的报告指出，一些世界大经济体的贫富差距已经达到30年来的最高水平。
A new report says the gap between the richest and poorest people in some of the world's biggest economies has reached its highest level in 30 years.
总部设在巴黎的经济合作与发展组织周二表示，该组织34个成员国中，最富有的10%的人的年收入是最穷的10%的9.5倍。而在20世纪80年代，这个数字是7比1。
The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Tuesday the richest 10 percent in the 34 countries that belong to the group now annually earn nine and a half times that of the poorest 10 percent. By comparison, the ratio was seven to one in the 1980s.
经合组织包括美国、日本和最大的欧洲经济体。该组织说，巨大的贫富差距对经济发展有“显著的负面影响和统计上的巨大影响”。
The OECD, which includes the United States, Japan and the biggest European economies, said the large wealth inequality has a "negative and statistically significant impact" on economic growth.
它表示，对经济发展影响最大的因素是“中产阶级下层和贫困家庭收入与社会其他阶层收入的差距扩大”。
It said the single biggest impact on growth is "the widening gap between the lower middle class and poor households compared to the rest of society."