Tag: oxfam
Covid; More Billionaires Created As Millions Pushed Into Poverty
For every new billionaire created during the pandemic (one every 30 hours), nearly a million people are pushed into extreme poverty in...
IMF Need To Abandon Austerity Demands As Hunger, Poverty Drives High
The International Monetary Fund's new austerity measures for the loans provided to developing countries, leading to an increase of poverty, hunger and...
How Many People Will Covid 19, Price Hike Push Into Poverty?
How many people will Covid 19, inequality and food price hikes push into poverty? As per an estimate from Oxfam, 263 million...
“We do Not Know Where the Next meal Comes; Syrians
Eleven years after the Syrian conflict began, six in ten Syrians do not know where their next meal is coming from, said...
Inequality Persists; Gulf Between Haves, Have-nots Widen
The world's ten richest men more than doubled their fortunes from 700 billion dollars to 1.5 trillion dollars (at a rate of 15,000 dollars...
Wealthy Nations Fall in Climate Funding
Wealthy nations are expected to fall by 75 billion dollars short of fulfilling their long standing pledge to mobilise 100 billion dollars each year...
Poor Funding, Trend Towards Private Sector Widens Public Health Gap
The poor funding in public health care system and the trend towards supporting the growth of private sector worsened the health infrastructure and widened...
People Die More Of Hunger than Covid
In a horrifying revelation, the anti-poverty organisation Oxfam said that 11 people die of hunger each minute, which outpaced Covid 19 deaths. As per...
One per cent of the Rich responsible for twice carbon emission...
The richest of the world, who are just one per cent of the total population, are responsible for more than twice as much carbon...
World economic inequality widens
The world’s 2,153 billionaires are reported to have more wealth than 60 per cent of the total popul6ation in the planet, which underlines the...
