Anti-poverty group says billionaires' wealth soared in 2024 as the elites prepare for another DavosBillionaires' wealth surged three times faster in 2024 compared to the previous year, according to Oxfam International. The group's assessm...
20 Jan, 2025, 07.55 AM IST
The world could get its first trillionaire within 10 years, anti-poverty group Oxfam saysThe global elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos grew $405 billion richer in 2020 and reached a total wealth of $869 billion last year...
16 Jan, 2024, 09.39 PM IST
Gear up, the world's first trillionaire is at best, 10 years away: ReportOxfam International predicts that the world could have its first trillionaire within a decade, highlighting the growing disparities between...
15 Jan, 2024, 02.55 PM IST
As Davos crowd gathers, governments urged to rein in 'billionaire class'Oxfam reveals the wealth of the world's five richest men has surged to $869 billion since 2020, doubling, while five billion people face in...
15 Jan, 2024, 07.08 AM IST
As Davos opens, Oxfam urges 'billionaire busting' policiesThe aid group made its plea as the Swiss Alpine village hosts political leaders, CEOs and celebrities for the week-long World Economic Foru...
16 Jan, 2023, 10.52 AM IST
India's richest 1% own more than 40% of total wealth: OxfamThe report titled 'Survival of the Richest' further said that if India's billionaires are taxed once at 2 per cent on their entire wealth, ...
16 Jan, 2023, 07.11 AM IST
Networth of richest-1% double of rest of world: OxfamReleasing the report on the sidelines of the annual congregation of the global elite in this Swiss ski resort town, Oxfam said a tax of up ...
16 Jan, 2023, 07.04 AM IST
A billionaire emits a million times more greenhouse gases than average person: Oxfam reportCumulatively, 125 billionaires fund 393 million tonnes of CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent) per year, which is equal to the annual carbon em...
07 Nov, 2022, 07.04 AM IST
Pandemic creates new billionaire every 30 hours: Oxfam at DavosOxfam's new research also showed that corporations in the energy, food and pharmaceutical sectors -- where monopolies are especially common...
23 May, 2022, 03.29 PM IST
Rich get richer in pandemic: Collective wealth of billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos reaches $11.95 trillionThe world's poor face years of hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic.
25 Jan, 2021, 03.00 PM IST
Number of billionaires doubles in 10 years; world's 22 richest men have more wealth than all women in AfricaOxfam appealed to the Davos elite to get serious about inequality.
25 Jan, 2020, 03.19 PM IST
Wealth of India's richest 1% more than 4-times of total for 70% poorest: OxfamIndia's richest 1% hold more than four-times the wealth held by 953 mn people who make up for the bottom 70%.
20 Jan, 2020, 10.48 PM IST
India's richest 1% get richer by 39 percent in 2018, just 3 percent rise for bottom-half: OxfamThe top 1 percent of India's richest got richer by 39 per cent last year, an Oxfam study said.
21 Jan, 2019, 10.16 PM IST
Donald Trump's 'billionaires first' policy to be on display at WEF: OxfamA new Oxfam survey, scheduled to be released today, shows that Trump's economic agenda is deeply unpopular with the US public.
25 Jan, 2018, 03.34 PM IST
India's richest 1% corner 73% of wealth generation: SurveyThe situation appears even more grim globally, where 82% of the wealth generated last year worldwide went to the 1%, said an Oxfam survey.
23 Jan, 2018, 07.30 AM IST
Bill Gates could soon become world's 1st trillionaireAccording to a report, the world would get its first trillionaire in the next 25 years.
26 Jan, 2017, 12.31 AM IST
Checking income inequality key to fighting poverty in India: ReportAccording to the report, India could end extreme poverty for 90 million people by 2019 if income inequality was reduced.
31 Oct, 2014, 08.06 PM IST