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Inequality kills: the unparalleled action needed to combat unprecedented inequality in the wake of COVID-19 [1]

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 percent of humanity fall and over 160 million more people forced into poverty. If these ten men were to lose 99.999 percent of their wealth tomorrow, they would still be richer than 99 percent of all the people on this planet. They now have six times more wealth than the poorest 3.1 billion people. In a new briefing “Inequality Kills,” published ahead of the World Economic Forum’s Davos Agenda, Oxfam says that inequality is contributing to the death of at least 21,000 people each day, or one person every four seconds. This is a conservative finding based on deaths globally from lack of access to healthcare, gender-based violence, hunger, and climate breakdown.
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Publication Date: 
17/01/2022
Oxfam [3]
Tags:
Poverty [4], Economy [5], Health [6], Coronavirus [7], India [8], Global [9]
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