Oxfam International at the World Economic Forum called for the wealthiest beneficiaries of the COVID pandemic to be taxed to finance childcare, education, and work opportunities for women in Global South, Economic Times reported.
According to Oxfam’s website, “Oxfam: The future is equal,” a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.
According to a report from CNBC, Buche added, “The pandemic and now the steep increases in food and energy prices have, simply put, been a bonanza for them.”
“Meanwhile, decades of progress on extreme poverty are now in reverse and millions of people are facing impossible rises in the cost of simply staying alive,” Bucher said.
Bucher also mentioned that Covid has been one of the most profitable products.
“Billionaires has been, you know, unprecedented during the pandemic. And there’s been several sectors where that has been mostly concentrated. And one is, in fact, the pharma sectors, because Covid has been one of the most profitable products ever. So that’s one point to discuss in our report,” Bucher said.
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A new billionaire emerged every 30 hours during the Covid-19 pandemic, and nearly a million could fall intoextreme poverty at around the same rate in 2022. Those are the sobering statistics recently released by Oxfam.
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