'Most billionaire wealth is taken, not earned': A new report reveals how 60% of world’s wealthiest are building their fortunesOxfam International's latest assessment reveals that extreme wealth among the world's richest is largely unearned, driven by inheritance, c...
20 Jan, 2025, 06.12 PM 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
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
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates: World's 10 richest men doubled their fortunes during pandemic, says reportOxfam said the billionaires' wealth rose more during the pandemic than it did the previous 14 years.
17 Jan, 2022, 04.36 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
View: Oxfam is wrong. Inequality plus growth is betterIndia’s history shows that equality without growth can be worse than growth with inequality. Rapid growth has been a better antidote to pov...
27 Jan, 2019, 10.54 AM IST
India ranks among the bottom 15 of Oxfam world inequality indexThe index is based on a new database of indicators which measures government action on social spending, tax and labour rights.
10 Oct, 2018, 04.03 PM IST
Indian billionaires' wealth equals 15 per cent of GDP, poor becoming poorer: OxfamIt said the wealthiest in India have cornered a huge part of the wealth created in the country through crony capitalism and inheritance.
22 Feb, 2018, 05.21 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
Nominal tax on super rich can lift 9 crore out of poverty: ReportLevying a wealth tax of 1.5 per cent on super rich could help attain the objective of raising people out of extreme poverty.
10 Nov, 2014, 05.25 PM IST
Wealth of 85 tycoons equals poorest half: OxfamThe richest 85 people on the planet owned as much wealth as the poorest half of humanity, according to a new hard-hitting report released b...
01 Nov, 2014, 11.09 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