in contrast poverty among older persons has fallen organization for economic cooperation and development a european commission directorategeneral for employment social affairs and equal opportunities the recent report growing unequal income distribution and poverty in oecd countries organization for economic cooperation and development a points to growing inequality and poverty in two thirds of oecd countries and finds that the economic growth of recent decades has largely benefited the rich more than the poor across oecd countries the income of the richest per cent of people is nearly nine times that of the poorest per cent