A community member in Gaza receives a food distribution from Oxfam and partners Economic & Social Development Center of Palestine (ESDC) and Palestine Agricultural Development Association (PARC).

Oxfam report said billionaire wealth grew by $2 trillion last year, or roughly $5.7 billion a day, three-times faster than in 2023. Billionaires' wealth grew three times faster in 2024 than the ...

Advertisement 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.

The world is now on track to see five trillionaires within a decade, the latest annual Oxfam inequality report reveals. The global economic system is broken, wholly unfit for purpose as it enables and ...

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WEF 2025: Billionaire wealth rose three times faster last year, as per a new report. Even if the world’s 10 richest people lost 99% of their wealth overnight, they would still remain ...

Oxfam made the prediction in its latest assessment of global inequality timed for the opening of the World Economic Forum meeting. The charity, which is focused on tackling global poverty ...

“Above all, we need this ceasefire not only to hold for the forty-two days, but to become a permanent ceasefire,” said Abby Maxman, president and CEO of Oxfam America, speaking on behalf of a ...

An Oxfam report found Australian billionaires' wealth increased by more than 8 per cent, or $28 billion, last year. Globally, the 10 richest people are all men and their wealth increased by more ...

Oxfam’s new report, “Takers, Not Makers,” explores how extreme wealth is not accumulated simply as a reward for extreme talent. The majority of billionaire wealth—an estimated 60 percent of it—is ...

Wetherby’s vacant HSBC building, on North Street, will be converted into four flats. The bank was one of more than 100 branches closed down by the company after a rise in the use of online banking.

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 ...