{"id":242719,"date":"2020-01-21T18:23:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T23:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=242719"},"modified":"2020-01-24T01:17:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T06:17:53","slug":"2153-billionaires-wealthier-than-4-6b-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/01\/21\/2153-billionaires-wealthier-than-4-6b-people\/","title":{"rendered":"2,153 billionaires wealthier than 4.6B people"},"content":{"rendered":"
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During the last decade, the number of billionaires has doubled — 2,153 — the report revealed. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ISTANBUL<\/strong>\u00a0— Last year, 2,153 billionaires from around the world were richer than 4.6 billion people, a new report from UK-based charity Oxfam said on Monday.<\/p>\n

The report, named Time to Care said: “Economic inequality is out of control. One percent of the world\u2019s richest have more than twice as much wealth as 6.9 billion people.”<\/p>\n

During the last decade, the number of billionaires has doubled — 2,153 — the report revealed.<\/p>\n

The world’s richest 22 men’s wealth was over than all African women in the last year, it underlined.<\/p>\n

The report also warned about extreme poverty in the world, saying: “Almost half of the world\u2019s population lives on less than USD5.50 a day.”<\/p>\n

It said: “At the top of the global economy, a small elite are unimaginably rich. Their wealth grows exponentially over time, with little effort, and regardless of whether they add value to society.”<\/p>\n

The report stressed that especially women and girls face poverty in the world.<\/p>\n

Women work 12.5 billion hours daily for free and their efforts are “essential” for the world, the report stressed.<\/p>\n

“Oxfam has calculated that this work adds value to the economy of at least USD10.8 trillion,” it added.<\/p>\n

Amitabh Behar, Oxfam’s India CEO, said: “They [women] spend billions of hours cooking, cleaning and caring for children and the elderly. Unpaid care work is the \u2018hidden engine\u2019 that keeps the wheels of our economies, businesses and societies moving.”<\/p>\n

The report proposed that governments must establish a new and human-based economy.<\/p>\n

It asserted that super-rich people are avoiding paying their taxes up to 30 percent.<\/p>\n

Mentioning inequality between men and women globally, it said: “Men own 50 percent more wealth than women.”<\/p>\n

The report offered a 0.5 percent additional tax on the richest people’s wealth over the next decade for meeting investment need to generate 117 million new jobs in some sectors — elderly and childcare, education, and health.<\/p>\n

Behar said: \u201cThe gap between the rich and poor can’t be resolved without deliberate inequality-busting policies, and too few governments are committed to these.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur broken economies are lining the pockets of billionaires and big businesses at the expense of ordinary men and women. No wonder people are starting to question whether billionaires should even exist,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Oxfam’s report was created based on the Credit Suisse Global Wealth report.\u00a0(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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