Income inequalities in world increase. - The gap between the level of earnings worldwide continues to grow wider and puts a brake on growth, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) underlines in its 2012 report. The report concludes that, in 30 years, the share of salaries in the total revenue of states has fallen by 5% in Australia, in the United Kingdom and in the United States, and by 10% if not more in France, Germany and Ireland. In several countries, the 1% of richest people in a population now accounts for 10-20% of national wealth. In 1980, income per capita of the 15 richest countries was 44 times greater than that of the 15 poorest countries. In 2000, this figure went to 56, and continues to grow. Although globalisation is largely responsible for such differences, governments may have recourse to budgetary policy and employment policies to reduce them, UNCTAD underlines. When it comes to growth, the low demand in Europe is a burden on exports from developing countries, although they are today less dependent on the industrialised countries. Prospects for 2013 are not wonderful. Growth will be less than 2.5% in 2013 and hardly 1% in the developed countries with yet another recession in the European Union, UNCTAD predicts, denouncing budgetary austerity and the compression of salaries which weaken growth still further. (IL/transl.jl)