Languages: English. Billionaire wealth surged by $2 trillion in 2024—equivalent to $5.7 billion per day—as global inequality reached unprecedented levels, Oxfam International reported Monday.

A historian has suggested Britain return looted artefacts to its former colonies instead of vast sums in reparations, after an Oxfam report suggested India was owed over £52 trillion. The report ...

Billionaires’ wealth globally grew three times faster in 2024 than the year before, global advocacy group Oxfam International says, as some of the world’s political and financial elite prepare ...

Oxfam warned that global society is increasingly dominated by an “aristocratic oligarchy.” The charity reported that the wealth of the world’s billionaires grew from $13 trillion to $15 ...

The charity’s report argues that the UK owes reparations to the colonial country for extracting money between 1765 and 1900 Oxfam has been accused of “weaponising history” after publishing a ...

As it does ahead of each Davos Forum, the Britain-based non-governmental organization Oxfam International released its annual report on the worsening state of global inequality. Titled Takers Not ...

In its flagship inequity report released every year on the first day of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Oxfam International contrasted the huge jump in the billionaire wealth with the ...

Oxfam said trillionaires are expected to emerge within the next decade, as the richest 1% now own 45% of global wealth, while 44% of humanity lives on less than $6.85 ...

According to the anti-poverty group Oxfam International, billionaire wealth surged by $2tn (€1.93bn) in 2024, equivalent to roughly $5.7bn (€5.5bn) a day, three times faster than the year ...

This forms part of rights group Oxfam International's latest flagship global inequity report released every year on the first day of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. The report ...

Oxfam International, in its latest assessment of global inequality timed to the opening of the World Economic Forum meeting, also predicts at least five trillionaires will crop up over the next ...

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