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India: extreme inequality in numbers

21 May 2019

While India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, it is also one of the most unequal countries. The richest have cornered a huge part of the wealth created while the poor are still struggling to earn a minimum wage and access quality education and healthcare services. Join our campaign and fight inequality today.
Billionaire fortunes grew by $2.5 billion a day last year as poorest saw their wealth fall

21 January 2019

Billionaire fortunes increased by 12 percent last year – or $2.5 billion a day - while the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of humanity saw their wealth decline by 11 percent, reveals a new report from Oxfam today.
Kenya: extreme inequality in numbers

5 December 2017

Despite an impressive economic growth since 2005, poverty still affects millions of people’s lives in Kenya. But extreme inequality is not inevitable, it is a matter of political choice. The Kenyan government can reduce it to sustainable levels and ensure a more equal and prosperous future for all Kenyans.
Brazil: extreme inequality in numbers

24 September 2017

Despite being one of largest economies, Brazil is listed as one of the most unequal countries in the world. Although it has left millions of people out of poverty over the last decades, it still faces a huge gap between the country’s richest and the rest of the population. Learn more and support Oxfam's work on inequality.
Forbes Rich List underlines warped economic system as more billionaires created

20 March 2017

A world where more new billionaires have been created in a year than ever before shows signs of economic sickness rather than health.
Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report again exposes shocking inequality despite political concerns

22 November 2016

The Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report shows once again that economic inequality remains at shockingly high levels. The richest 1 percent now has as much wealth as the rest of the world combined.
Super-rich are getting even richer, shows new World Wealth Report, with world’s poorest left behind

22 June 2016

Today’s World Wealth Report from Capgemini shows that times have never been better for the world’s wealthiest - since 2009 more than 4.5 million new millionaires have been created, rising to a total of 15.4 million millionaires across the world last year. Yet while the wealthy prosper, 702 million people living in extreme poverty are being left behind.
Number of billionaires doubles since financial crisis as inequality spirals out of control

29 October 2014

Rising inequality could set the fight against poverty back by decades, Oxfam warned today as it published a new report showing that the number of billionaires worldwide has more than doubled since the financial crisis.
Oxfam response to Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report

14 October 2014