Billionaires' wealth grew three times faster in 2024 than the year before, top anti-poverty group Oxfam International reported in its latest assessment of global inequality as some of the world's ...

Billionaire's wealth has grown faster last year, and now the world can expect at least 5 trillionaires within a decade, even as the number of people in poverty has barely budged since 1990 ...

The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is underway this week — and there are calls for taxing the extremely rich to ...

Climate breakdown and inequality are deeply interwoven, with each crisis exacerbates the other; according to a new report.

The ultra-rich pose a threat to our democratic institutions—and the problem will deepen if extreme wealth is left unchecked.

The most important step in any solution is to increase the taxes the super-rich must pay, an idea that gained significant ...

Oxfam’s ‘Million Pound Pint’ campaign aims to highlight the disparity between the super-rich and the rest of the population.

In 2024, an average of nearly four new billionaires were coined every week, according to Oxfam. Much of their wealth will be ...

It varies from country to country but the small numbers at the very top of the pile – Forbes identified 2,640 billionaires ...

Costco is pushing back on a shareholder proposal that urges the wholesale club operator to conduct an evaluation of any ...

Perhaps one of the UN's most ambitious and longstanding projects - the launching of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)- is aimed, among other things, at helping developing nations eradicate ...

US president addresses global elites via video link as he sets out his vision for the world over the next four years.