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China uses strict measures to counter financial inequality as global repor
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Beijing [China], January 24 (ANI): China faces vast financial inequality and is using strict measures to counter it as a recent report has shed light on the rising wealth gap worldwide, said a report.
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40 new Indians enter billionaire club in 2021 while incomes of 84 per cent
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): During 2021, 40 new Indians became billionaires, taking the total count to 142, while 84 per cent of households in the country suffered a decline in their income in a year marked by tremendous loss of life and livelihoods, according to an Oxfam report rel
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Wealth of 10 richest person doubled while incomes of 99 per cent people de
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): The world's ten richest men more than doubled their fortunes from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion --at a rate of $15,000 per second or $1.3 billion a day-- during the first two years of a pandemic that has seen the incomes of 99 per cent of humanity fall an
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Jamia Millia Islamia, Indian Medical Association among 12,580 entities los
Updated : 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 1 (ANI): Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia, Indian Medical Association, Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial Foundation, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi College of Engineering and Oxfam India are among 5,789 entities whose Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) licen
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Poorer nations expected to face $75 billion shortfall in climate finance:
Updated : 9 months, 1 week ago IST
Nairobi [Kenya], Sep 20 (ANI): Wealthy nations are expected to fall up to 75 billion dollars short of fulfilling their long-standing pledge to mobilise 100 billion dollars each year from 2020 to 2025 to help the most vulnerable countries adapt to the dangerous effects of climate change and r
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Aid organization Oxfam condemns US embargo on Cuba
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Havana [Cuba], May 26 (ANI/Xinhua): The US embargo against Cuba affects the rights of women, adolescents and girls, Oxfam, a confederation of 20 independent charitable organizations focusing on global poverty alleviation, said Tuesday.
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Covid vaccines create 9 new billionaires: People's Vaccine Alliance
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 20 (ANI): At least nine people have become new billionaires since the beginning of Covid pandemic, thanks to the excessive profits pharmaceutical corporations with monopolies on Covid vaccines are making, the People's Vaccine Alliance said on Thursday ahead of a G20 le
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Mega-rich recoup Covid-losses in record-time, but billions in poverty: Oxf
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Davos [Switzerland], January 25 (ANI): The 1,000 richest people on the planet recouped their Covid-19 losses within just nine months but it could take more than a decade for the world's poorest to recover from the economic impacts of the pandemic, shows a new Oxfam report released on Monday.
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Platinum Guild India in association with Oxfam India aims to uplift the li
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 7 (ANI/NewsVoir): The COVID-19 situation has caused unprecedented challenges in India as well as globally and has left many reeling from its impact. It has been particularly harsh on certain marginalized sections of our community such as the migrant w
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Rahul targets PM, says 1 pc of India's super rich own 4 times more wealth
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 20 (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over a report that said the total wealth of 63 Indian billionaires was more than the last year's Union Budget.
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Total wealth of 63 Indian billionaires higher than last year's Union Budge
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Davos [Switzerland], Jan 20 (ANI): The combined total wealth of 63 Indian billionaires is higher than the total Union Budget for fiscal year 2018-19 which was at Rs 24.42 lakh crore, according to a new report from Oxfam released on Monday ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meetin
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World's billionaires have more wealth than 4.6 billion people: Oxfam
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Davos [Switzerland], Jan 20 (ANI): The world's 2,153 billionaires have more wealth than the 4.6 billion people who make up 60 per cent of the planet's population, according to a new report from Oxfam International released on Monday ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meet here.
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