Are rich people psychopaths?
Some years back, I went to visit a friend of mine from college who was staying with a very rich author whilst completing an internship in London. He lived in a massive house in Battersea, a rich area next to the river Thames. Looking round…
AS HUNGER SURGES, HERE ARE THREE WAYS INDIA CAN TACKLE ITS MASSIVE INEQUALITY
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% In the past three years the…
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. Open an economics…
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…
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…
“AN INCREDIBLE EXPLOSION OF INEQUALITY” – with Renowned Economist, Branko Milanovic
By Elizabeth Njambi We are witnessing a COVID-19 driven explosion in inequality. This week, Oxfam released its annual report, Inequality Kills, showing that the pandemic is killing at least 1 person every 4 seconds, while the ten richest men have doubled their fortunes during this…
Inequality Kills: The unparalleled action needed to combat unprecedented inequality in the wake of COVID-19
The wealth of the world’s 10 richest men has doubled since the pandemic began. The incomes of 99% of humanity are worse off because of COVID-19. Widening economic, gender, and racial inequalities—as well as the inequality that exists between countries—are tearing our world apart. Read…
MUSIC AS POLITICAL POWER – With PilAto, Zambian Music Artist Sensation
By Elizabeth Njambi [This episode contains great music!] His beautiful music reaches millions. He’s topped the charts in the African continent. He’s winning change. He’s even been arrested for his music. He is PilAto – real name Fumba Chama – the Zambian music artist and…
WHY WE NEED TO DREAM – Award-Winning Author Gary Younge on MLK, Inequality and Race
By Elizabeth Njambi A remarkable conversation with a great thinker and giant of journalism who has covered the great stories of our time. We ask what can be learnt from MLK about the fight against inequality? What holds back change and what is the role…