In our latest blog for Davos 2023, Amitabh Behar introduces the India supplement to Oxfam’s Davos report, which reveals how just 5% of Indians own more than 60% of the country’s wealth, while the bottom half of the population have 3%
Welcome to the era of ‘greedflation’
Corporations that dominate food and fuel markets have been using the war and pandemic as a smokescreen to bump up their prices much more than their costs. Oxfam’s Alex Maitland explains how increased corporate profits have driven at least half of inflation.
The super-rich pay lower taxes than you – and here’s how they do it…
How do the wealthy get away with paying a lower percentage of their income and wealth in taxes than ordinary people? A big part of the answer is that many of their fortune streams, from dividends to inheritance, are chronically undertaxed, says Chiara Putaturo in our latest blog for Davos 2023
Whether in Asia, Africa or North America, it’s been a profitable polycrisis for billionaires
Around the world it seems the pandemic and surging food and fuel prices have actually boosted the wealth of the super-rich, even as they pushed hundreds of millions of ordinary people into misery and penury, says Anthony Kamande in our second blog for Davos 2023
Taxation of the super-rich has collapsed: as one in eight people go to bed hungry, that simply has to change
When even millionaires are pleading to be taxed so governments can tackle our colliding global crises, we can see there’s something rotten in the state of economic policy. Max Lawson introduces Oxfam’s 2023 Davos report, ‘Survival of the Richest: How we must tax the super-rich now to fight inequality’
Billionaires made more in the 24 months of the pandemic than they did in 23 years. Oxfam on Davos
For the first time in a very long time we are seeing a sharp spike in both extreme wealth and extreme poverty. Max Lawson on Oxfam’s latest Davos broadside – and his worries that his salary is about to get cut
In East Africa, the pandemic has pushed millions out of work: here’s what governments need to do
My region’s countries collect just a fifth of what they should in tax, says Oxfam’s Anthony Kamande. We need those lost billions to tackle extreme inequality and mend our public finances
In Asia, billionaires profited from the pandemic while millions dropped out of school forever
In our final blog for Davos week, Oxfam India chief executive Amitabh Behar looks at how the pandemic has widened an already vast wealth gap in Asia Pacific
‘None of us expected such a jump in wealth…’ The inside story of how Oxfam’s analysts counted the billions
If the ten richest men sat on their wealth in dollar bills, they would be halfway to the moon – but how do you work that out? In another blog for Davos week, Alex Maitland tells us how the Oxfam team came up with some of our mind-blowing wealth stats
Why does Oxfam say ‘inequality kills’? We break down the numbers
In our latest blog for Davos week, Didier Jacobs unpacks the calculations behind our striking statistic that inequality is linked to one death every four seconds