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| 25.12.2024 | Tensions Rise as Humanitarian Crisis Deepens in Gaza | The Middle East is a powder keg, and Gaza is at its center. The humanitarian crisis there is worsening, a storm brewing amid political and military turmoil. The situation is dire, with food supplies dwindling and violence escalating. The wo... |
| 24.12.2024 | Looting cripples food supply in Gaza despite Israeli pledge to tackle gangs | Israel has failed to crack down on armed gangs attacking food convoys in Gaza, despite a pledge to do so in mid-October to help ward off famine in the Palestinian enclave, according to three UN and US officials familiar with the matter.
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| 24.12.2024 | Some gaps have narrowed in elusive Gaza ceasefire deal, sides say | CAIRO/JERUSALEM: Gaps between Israel and Hamas over a possible Gaza ceasefire have narrowed, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials' remarks on Monday (Dec 23), though crucial differences have yet to be resolved.
A fresh bid by medi... |
| 06.12.2024 | Asian Banks: The Key to Sustainable Consumer Empowerment | In the bustling landscape of Asia's financial sector, a quiet revolution is brewing. Fair Finance Asia (FFA) recently unveiled a scorecard that evaluates how well banks are enabling consumers to contribute to sustainability. This initiative... |
| 05.12.2024 | Asian banks play a critical role in empowering consumers as part of their sustainability agenda, according to Fair Finance Asia | PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Dec. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Fair Finance Asia (FFA) has published a new scorecard assessing to what extent Asian banks enable consumers to actively contribute to sustainability outcomes.
Fair Finance Asia (2024, Decem... |
| 03.12.2024 | 'End in sight' to talks on pandemic treaty, says WHO chief | GENEVA: Countries trying to negotiate a global agreement on handling future pandemics began an extra week of talks on Monday (Dec 2), with the WHO chief insisting the end was in sight.
The talks at the World Health Organization's headquarte... |
| 28.11.2024 | Fair Finance Asia reveals critical gaps in the gender considerations of the Asian Development Bank's Energy Transition Mechanism Pilot in Indonesia's Cirebon 1 | PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Nov. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Fair Finance Asia's (FFA) latest report, Towards a Gender-Transformative Energy Transition in Asia, reveals critical gaps in the consideration of gender equality and women's empowerment in... |
| 26.11.2024 | Commentary: COP29 climate finance deal is a decade late and US$2 trillion short | NEW YORK: Watching another chaotic United Nations climate confab end in disappointment brings to mind that old saw, incorrectly ascribed to Winston Churchill, about America always doing the right thing, but only after it has exhausted every... |
| 19.11.2024 | Rethinking Productivity: The New Metrics for Success in the Workplace | In the corporate world, productivity is the holy grail. Companies chase it like moths to a flame. But what does it really mean? Is it the number of emails sent? The hours logged? Or is it something deeper? As productivity plateaus, the anxi... |
| 18.11.2024 | Goodstack secures $28M from General Catalyst | Goodstack, a SaaS and fintech platform for companies' charitable donations, has raised $28 million in its Series A funding round. The round was led by General Catalyst, with support from existing investors Morpheus Ventures and Repeat (form... |
| 16.11.2024 | Lebanon said studying US truce plan for Israel-Hezbollah war | BEIRUT: Lebanese officials were reviewing on Friday (Nov 15) a US truce proposal in the Israel-Hezbollah war as Hamas said it was ready for a ceasefire on Israel's other front, in Gaza.
Israel has been at war against Iran-backed Hezbollah i... |
| 12.11.2024 | US says it will not limit Israel arms transfers after some improvements in flow of aid to Gaza | Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s top national security adviser, Ron Dermer, in Washington a day earlier to go over the steps that Israel has taken since Blinken and Defense Secretary Llo... |
| 07.10.2024 | Gaza is in ruins after Israel’s yearlong offensive. Rebuilding may take decades | FILE – Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)
Palestinians walk through the destruction left by the Israeli air and ground offensive ... |
| 05.10.2024 | With COP29 On the Horizon, A Landmark Climate Mitigation Fund Is Drying Up | 5 Mins Read Since rich countries promised $650 million to the so-called loss-and-damage fund last year, new pledges have dried up.
By Naveena Sadasivam
At the annual United Nations climate conference in Dubai last year, the world’s countrie... |
| 23.09.2024 | World’s top 1% own more wealth than 95% of humanity, as “the shadow of global oligarchy hangs over UN General Assembly,” says Oxfam | Over a third of world’s biggest 50 corporations —worth $13.3 trillion— now run by a billionaire or has a billionaire as a principal shareholder.
Global South countries own just 31 percent of global wealth, despite being home to 79 percent o... |
| 18.09.2024 | Discovering Serenity: Hong Kong's Autumn Wellness Retreats | Autumn in Hong Kong is a breath of fresh air. The sweltering summer heat gives way to a cool, inviting breeze. This season transforms the city into a wellness paradise, beckoning travelers to rejuvenate their minds, bodies, and souls. For I... |
| 18.09.2024 | Unwind and Revitalise in the Urban Wellness Paradise of Hong Kong this Autumn | Hong Kong
Autumn is the perfect time for Indian travellers to visit Hong Kong, when cosy weather combines with the city’s majestic natural landscape, offering all manner of ways to rejuvenate the mind, body, and soul. Indian tourists can en... |
| 10.09.2024 | FMCC Charity Gala Dinner 2024 Supports Oxfam's "Paper Recycling" Project | MACAU, Sept. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The France Macau Chamber of Commerce (FMCC) is proud to announce its Annual Charity Gala Dinner 2024, themed "A Journey Through Time and Space," to be held on September 20th at 6:30 pm in the ... |
| 29.08.2024 | Oxfam Launches Digital Hub to Drive Coordinated Multistakeholder Action on Just Energy Transition in Asia | PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Aug. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Oxfam's Fair Finance Asia (FFA) and Influencing Just Energy Transition in Asia (I-JET) Programs have jointly launched a new Just Energy Transition (JET) Policy Toolkit that serves as a rep... |
| 27.07.2024 | G20 agrees to tackle taxation of the super-rich, but forum not yet decided | FinanceG20 agrees to tackle taxation of the super-rich, but forum not yet decided
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| 04.07.2024 | The EU Commission admits taxing wealth is gaining ground | Chiara Putaturo is available for interview.
Read the new EU Annual Report on Taxation. Wealth taxation is covered in chapter 3.4 (pp. 87 to 99). The report estimates that the richest 0.001% of EU citizens (roughly 3,560 individuals) saw the... |
| 28.06.2024 | M&S launches clothing repair service | Image Courtesy: cepedoca.org.br
Based on recent data from M&S, which indicates that just 10% of people are self-assured enough to fix clothing, and that 60% of customers want retailers to provide more services that help them reduce thei... |
| 10.06.2024 | Прогрессивный налог — социальная справедливость или латание дыр бюджета? | Примечательная черта налоговой политики РФ «нулевых» годов — это фиксированная ставка налогообложения на доходы физлиц. Последние 20 лет 13% от полученного дохода платил любой гражданин: и перебивающийся минимальной зарплатой, и выбирающий,... |
| 30.05.2024 | 'All Eyes on Rafah': Compelling Image Is Going Viral on Social Media, Brings Attention to Plight of Palestinians | By Inno Flores
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| 12.05.2024 | Over 300 dead in Afghanistan floods as humanitarian crisis unfolds | - |
| 10.05.2024 | U.S. weapons may have been used in ways "inconsistent" with international law in Gaza, U.S. assessment says | Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered to Congress on Friday a highly anticipated report on the Israeli military's operations in Gaza that accused Israeli forces of potentially violating international humanitarian law but did not forma... |
| 08.05.2024 | Palestinians flee chaos and panic in Rafah after Israel’s seizure of border crossing | The past three days, streams of people on foot or in vehicles have jammed the roads out of Rafah in a confused evacuation, their belongings piled high in cars, trucks and donkey carts. All the while, Israeli bombardment has boomed and raise... |
| 26.04.2024 | Relief for NGOs, trusts: June 30 is new deadline for registration, renewal | - |
| 18.04.2024 | El Nino not climate change driving southern Africa drought | 20 million people faced hunger in Africa. Image: Pixabay
A drought that pushed millions of people into hunger across southern Africa has been driven mostly by the El Nino weather pattern – not climate change, scientists said on Thursday.
Th... |
| 10.04.2024 | Amazon and Walmart warehouse employees are so surveilled that they're worried about breaking to use the bathroom: Oxfam report | Retail Amazon and Walmart warehouse employees are so surveilled that they're worried about breaking to use the bathroom: Oxfam report
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| 05.04.2024 | International Outrage Over Israeli Strike on Aid Workers in Gaza | The deadly Israeli strike that killed seven humanitarian workers in Gaza has sparked international condemnation and calls for accountability. World powers, including the UN, have criticized Israel for its disregard for international humanit... |
| 03.04.2024 | Aid groups urge change after 'systematic' Israel attacks on humanitarian efforts in Gaza | PARIS: The international community must treat the deadly Israeli strike that killed seven humanitarian workers in Gaza as a watershed moment, aid groups say, accusing Israel of "systematic" attacks on civilians and NGOs working th... |
| 24.03.2024 | Only effective way to ramp up Gaza aid is by road, Guterres says | CAIRO: The only effective and efficient way to deliver heavy goods to meet Gaza's humanitarian needs is by road and includes an exponential increase in commercial deliveries, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday (Mar 24).
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| 17.03.2024 | AIA Hong Kong – the undisputed market champion in 2023 Achieving 10 market share No. 1 | The Hong Kong & Macau business being the largest contributor to AIA Group’s VONB in 2023
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 18 March 2024 – AIA Hong Kong achieved 10 market share No. 1 in the 2023 Provisional Statistics on Hong K... |
| 14.03.2024 | Study says, 79 per cent of female apparel workers left jobs to care for families | Image Courtesy: https://rmg-study.cpd.org.bd/
A recent survey has found that 79 per cent of female employees who quit their professions in the apparel industry did so to take care of their children.
Currently, 71 per cent of these female em... |
| 13.03.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Laila El-Haddad: My family in Gaza faces starvation. How do I find solace this Ramadan? | By Laila El-Haddad
Ordinarily, the days leading up to Ramadan, the holy month when Muslims give up food and drink from dawn to dusk, are exuberant. My younger children and I would prepare “iftar jars” and food baskets with Ramadan staples, ... |
| 08.03.2024 | The extravagant Ambani pre-wedding party was an affront to the millions of Indians in poverty, critics say | Economy The extravagant Ambani pre-wedding party was an affront to the millions of Indians in poverty, critics say
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| 21.01.2024 | Gaza’s hunger crisis, cholera’s African surge, and peak Davos: The Cheat Sheet | Our editors’ weekly take on humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe.
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After more than 100 days of war and Israeli siege, every single person in ... |
| 20.01.2024 | Wealth inequality and 'billionaire supremacy' have gotten so bad that at this rate, it will take 230 years to end poverty | Economy Wealth inequality and 'billionaire supremacy' have gotten so bad that at this rate, it will take 230 years to end poverty
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| 15.01.2024 | The world could have its first trillionaire within 10 years, while most of us are getting poorer, report says | Economy The world could have its first trillionaire within 10 years, while most of us are getting poorer, report says
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| 15.01.2024 | 100 Days of Conflict in Gaza | January 12, 2024
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| 29.08.2023 | Pew Finds More Dads Are Becoming Homemakers — That’s Good News For Everyone | A stay-at-home dad with his two children at home in Houston in 2016. Houston Chronicle via Getty Imag |
| 17.07.2023 | Yacht called Kaos vandalized by climate activists in Ibiza | Spanish climate activists defaced a multimillion-dollar superyacht docked in Ibiza over the weekend, a social media video shows. The yacht, a sprawling vessel called Kaos, is reportedly owned by Nancy Walton Laurie, a billionaire Walmart he... |
| 23.05.2023 | Share The Wealth: An Ethical Alternative To Getting Rich Quick | Let’s share the wealth, not because we are “good people” or think that we should, but because we start doing what Life is doing everywhere except in civilized society.getty |
| 22.05.2023 | UN’s DR Congo aid appeal is only 20 percent funded | Image by Tracy Angus-Hammond from Pixabay
The Democratic Republic of Congo lamented Monday that the UN humanitarian appeal for the African country has been only 20 percent funded with international aid being focused on Ukraine.
“The DRC pro... |
| 17.05.2023 | Rich nations urged to pay $13 trillion in pledges to Global South | Rich G7 nations owe poor ones an estimated $13 trillion in unpaid development aid as well as support in the fight against climate change, British charity Oxfam says.
Instead of fulfilling their obligations, the International Group of Seven ... |
| 26.01.2023 | Asian Civil Society Networks Raise Critical Questions and Concerns in New Report About the ADB's Energy Transition Mechanism | PHNOM PENH, Cambodia and MANILA, Philippines , Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Fair Finance Asia (FFA) and NGO Forum on ADB (the Forum) have released a new report, "The Asian Development Bank's Energy Transition Mechanism: Emerging Socia... |
| 18.01.2023 | Две трети новых накоплений за последние два года приходятся на 1% жителей планеты | Отдел новостей 18 января 2023, 16:11 Две трети новых накоплений за последние два года приходятся на 1% жителей планеты
По оценкам аналитиков международной благотворительной и гуманитарной организации Oxfam, две трети всех новых личных накоп... |
| 16.01.2023 | Oxfam calls for 'billionaire-busting' policies, says the world's top 1% has been getting richer much faster than everyone else | A protest ahead of the World Economic Forum 2023 in Davos, Switzerland on January 15, 2023. Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters
The top 1% has garnered two-thirds of the $42 trillion new wealth created since 2020, per UK non-profit Oxfam.
But at least 1.... |
| 08.01.2023 | Sustainability Can Be About Operations And Services Not Necessarily Values: The Case Of SDG Goals For Mumbai City | When neither exit nor voice is ineffective, as is often the case with local governments, reporting and measurement that ESG offers as a governance mechanism can be invaluable. |
| 27.12.2022 | Why do the rich get richer — even during global crises? | Death and devastation are not the only calling cards COVID-19 will be remembered by. The pandemic has also drastically widened inequalities across the globe over the past three years.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, 131 billi... |
| 08.12.2022 | Asia needs just energy transition, not 'energy addition,' says Fair Finance Asia study | BANGKOK, Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fair Finance Asia (FFA), in collaboration with Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and research partners Profundo and Strategia Development Research Institute (SDRI), have launched a new report, "... |
| 05.11.2022 | Why climate cash could make or break COP27 | International climate change conferences are weighty enterprises — they must stand on solid pillars of action, not just warm words and hot air. Starting on Sunday, the United Nations climate meeting in Egypt, COP27, will be no different. An... |
| 31.10.2022 | Social Fundraising Platform Charitablez Wins Reimagining Fundraising with the world's first charity tokens | Reimagining fundraising festival at the IFC22
Luc Hijdra, CEO of Charitablez
Charitablez, a social web3.0 platform, dedicated to improving the future of fundraising has won the Reimaging Fundraising Challenge 2022. AMSTERDAM, NORTH-HOLLAND,... |
| 21.10.2022 | Strengthen financial due diligence to protect women's rights in ASEAN, Fair Finance Asia urges | PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fair Finance Asia (FFA) and the Gender Transformative and Responsible Agribusiness Investments in Southeast Asia (GRAISEA) launched a policy brief, "Enabling Stronger Due Diligence in... |
| 19.10.2022 | To learn lessons from pandemics, don’t listen to big pharma | Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the leaders of wealthy countries pledged to respond with “global solidarity.” But when vaccines to prevent the disease were developed, those same leaders pushed low and middle-income countries to the back of ... |
| 09.10.2022 | International Finance Reform And The Case For Leadership Change At The World Bank | (Original Caption) Seated at the head table at the opening meeting of the governing boards of the ... [+] World Bank and International Monetary Fund are, left to right: Eugene R. Black, U.S., Pres. Intl. Bank; Morton Mendels, Canada, Sec. I... |
| 04.10.2022 | 100 Years Of Innovation And Inventions: South African Vice Chancellor Reflects On What’s Next | Vice Chancellor Professor Zeblon Vilakazi and others in the IBM Lab at the opening of Wits university’s Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct. Lauren Mulligan/Wits University |
| 20.09.2022 | After Two Years Of Slowing Progress, The Global Community Must Prioritize Gender Equality | Improving access to education for girls and women is key to achieving gender equality globally. getty |
| 06.07.2022 | Investing in Climate Adaptation | Co-authored by Hanel Baveja, Mona Alsubaei
The USV Climate Fund is focused on companies that provide mitigation for, or adaptation to, the climate crisis.
Mitigation means drawdown of existing greenhouse gasses and reducing future emissio... |
| 08.06.2022 | How A Social Entrepreneur Launched A Savings Tool For Smallholder Farmers | By Anushka Ratnayake, Founder and CEO of myAgro |
| 23.05.2022 | The pandemic may have been one of the ‘best times in recorded history’ for the world’s burgeoning billionaire class | Sign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don’t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations.
As the world’s most powerful people embark on their pilgrimage to Davos for the World Economic Forum, the gap betw... |
| 08.03.2022 | Jewelry Company Catbird Signs On As Founding Partner Of The Adventure Project’s Women’s Fund | The past few years have been full of setbacks, especially when it comes to worldwide poverty alleviation. The pandemic has had devastating effects specifically in Africa, where decades of progress has been undone. More children died of star... |
| 08.03.2022 | Fair Finance Asia's study reveals gender equality is ignored by financial institutions enabling big Asian agricultural conglomerates that employ women majorly as informal workers | PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, March 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Between 2016 to 2020, 125 of the largest agribusinesses operating in the ASEAN, India, Japan, and Pakistan received $22.6 billion in loans and underwriting services from financial institut... |
| 18.02.2022 | Three urgent priorities for the National Security Council to strengthen global health security and biodefense | In a planned transition, Beth Cameron, the Biden administration’s top official for global health security and biodefense, leaves her post at the White House National Security Council this month. After more than a decade spearheading biosecu... |
| 11.02.2022 | Software is eating the world–and supercharging global inequality | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
Joel Kurtenbach managed a successful, 700-acre dairy farm in Iowa until it was recently sold in bankruptcy... |
| 20.01.2022 | Here's a remedy for COVID's legacy of growing inequality | Email
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| 19.01.2022 | 100 millionaires and billionaires signed a letter to pay more taxes—and fear violence if they don’t | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
A group of more than 100 billionaires and millionaires has issued an appeal to world leaders—they want to ... |
| 17.01.2022 | World’s 10 richest men, mostly tech billionaires, doubled their wealth to $1.5 trillion during the pandemic, Oxfam says | Last summer, Newsweek wrote a piece that “people think Jeff Bezos’ laugh has become more villainous as he’s grown richer.” The piece is about a TikTok video that shows how Jeff Bezos’ laughed during various interviews and appearances. The v... |
| 17.01.2022 | Back from the brink: How non-profit organisations can improve financial literacy after Covid | There's no doubt Covid has hit the non-profit sector hard.
Fundraising became difficult with the likes of high street shops closing, and donors tightening their financial belts as they faced their own struggles.
The Charity Commission's rec... |
| 28.12.2021 | Big pharma minted 9 new billionaires in the last 2 years; with combined wealth greater than the cost of vaccinating the world’s poorest countries | Who said you can’t make billions while claiming to save lives? The pharmaceutical industry has minted at least nine billionaires since the covid pandemic started almost two years ago. The “booster jabs have become easy money for Pfizer and ... |
| 09.12.2021 | Denise Schafer and Juliette Chevalier Announce Surge- A Female Led Community Fixing the Gender Gap in Crypto | Today, they are excited to announce the launch of SURGE, a safe, empowering community focused on learning, educating, and securing women's place in Web3.
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| 07.12.2021 | WHERE ARE THEY NOW: The cast of ‘Sex and the City’ 23 years later | Sarah Jessica Parker and Chris Noth on the set of ‘Sex and the City.’ HBO/Getty Images
“Sex and the City” aired from 1998 to 2004, and it completely changed TV with its frank discussions.
The revival series, “And Just Like That…,” premieres... |
| 16.11.2021 | Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna make $65,000 per minute – PVA | --> -->
The People’s Vaccine Alliance (PVA) has carried out an analysis on Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna which suggests that the three drugmakers are making as much as $65,000 as combined profit every minute.
This conclusion was based ... |
| 10.11.2021 | Fair Finance Asia's new study reveals continued growth in Asia's coal sector even after the signing of the Paris Agreement | PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Nov. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- In the past five years (2016–2020) since the signing of the Paris Agreement, financial institutions operating in key Asian countries identified in Fair Finance Asia's latest study have pro... |
| 05.10.2021 | What Questions Does The Most Important Crisis Of Our Lifetime Raise For Us As Business Leaders? | By Umaimah Mendhro, Founder & CEO, VIDA & Co. |
| 04.10.2021 | From Climate Villains To Heroes? How The Rich Can Weaponize Their Influence To Fight Global Warming | Lady Gaga steps off her private jet in Sydney, Australia. According to new research, the climate ... [+] actions of the rich and famous matter in all sorts of ways. Getty Images |
| 21.09.2021 | Western Sahara, the Biden Administration and Human Rights | For decades, the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara have mobilized toward the U.N.-backed goal of the right to express their choice of either independence from or integration with the Moroccan state. Despite international support, Sahrawis ha... |
| 25.07.2021 | What a Gory New Horror Film Teaches Us About Financial Censorship | It’s a complicated time to be a defender of free speech, as the revolution of social media collides with the global rise of some ugly political tendencies. As our society’s sense of common goals and shared values frays, mainstream liberals ... |
| 09.07.2021 | War, Covid and climate change fuel the world's hunger crisis, killing 11 people every minute: Oxfam | The number of people dying from hunger rose six-fold in the past year to outpace Covid-19 fatalities, according to a new Oxfam report.
Eleven people die every minute from hunger and malnutrition as the proportion of people suffering famine-... |
| 13.04.2021 | All Your Lingering Vaccine Questions, Answered | Vaccines are rolling out, hot vax summer is getting hotter, and everyone, fairly, has a lot of questions about the spring’s hottest accessory: a little bandage on the shoulder, marking the spot where you got your COVID-19 jab. First of all,... |
| 01.04.2021 | Bristol Myers faces $1B+ tax fight after accidental disclosure reveals alleged offshore patents scheme — report | The IRS has battled Big Pharma for years over offshore patent transfer schemes, which it said have bilked the public interest by billions of dollars. Now, loose lips at the agency have revealed its pursuit of another drugmake... |
| 24.03.2021 | The field of economics has long excluded women, and it goes back to basic theories developed by men | Annie Fadely. Courtesy of Annie Fadely
Annie Fadely is a senior associate at Civic Ventures and a producer of the “Pitchfork Economics” podcast.
Fadely says it’s “obvious” that economics has a gender bias that’s rooted in the field’s founda... |
| 24.03.2021 | The field of economics has long excluded women, and it goes back to basic theories developed by men | Annie Fadely. Courtesy of Annie Fadely
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| 02.03.2021 | Elizabeth Warren’s new wealth tax bill would have raised $114 billion from billionaires in 2020 | Sen. Elizabeth Warren has continually advocated for a wealth tax. Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images
Several Democrats just proposed a wealth tax that would apply to 0.05% of American households.
An analysis finds billionaires would have pai... |
| 27.01.2021 | Covid-19 Helped Indian Billionaires Become 35% Richer Even As 1.7 Lakh Jobs Lost Per Hour | It is time for the Indian government to address the glaring income inequality especially when the pandemic has worsened it
India is a nation with glaring income inequality. That is evident from the wealth distribution as 77 percent of total... |
| 27.01.2021 | Billionaires made $3.9 trillion during the pandemic — enough to pay for everyone’s vaccine | In this June 6, 2019, file photo Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaks at the the Amazon re:MARS convention in Las Vegas. John Locher/AP
An Oxfam report found billionaires’ wealth increased by $US3.9 trillion between March 18 and December 30, 2020.
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| 26.01.2021 | The ‘1%’ are the main drivers of climate change, but it hits the poor the hardest: Oxfam report | The richest of the rich are polluting the world and driving climate change, while the poorest of the poor suffer the greatest consequences, according to a new report published Monday by Oxfam International.
The richest 1% of the global popu... |
| 25.01.2021 | World’s ten richest people gained enough wealth to buy COVID vaccines for all | More On: billionaires
Elon Musk says he doesn’t own a home and sleeps in friends’ spare bedrooms Twitter employees slam ‘a–hole’ Elon Musk, ask whether he’s manipulating stock Billionaire’s England mansion at center of divorce sees $24M pri... |
| 25.01.2021 | COVID-19 crisis could spark record spike in inequality, Oxfam warns | More On: income inequality
Extra cash for low-income mothers may influence baby brains Disney heiress blasts Mouse House over pay inequality in new documentary Online store ‘stunt’ aims to promote understanding of workplace inequality Facts... |
| 13.01.2021 | WHERE ARE THEY NOW: The cast of ‘Sex and the City’ 23 years later | Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha were family. Home Box Office (HBO)
“Sex and the City” premiered in 1998, and completely changed TV.
From its frank discussions of sex to its exploration of the then-radical idea that women over 30 co... |
| 07.12.2020 | Europe's Immigrants Are Being Excluded By Financial Institutions — Startups Can Fix This | Selma Ribica is Founder of Ventures01, VC firm investing in early stage African tech. Former M-Pesa and a pioneering fintech entrepreneur. |
| 24.11.2020 | Here's why former RBI governor Rajan and former deputy Acharya believe the plan to allow corporations to own banks is a 'bad idea' | Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan and former deputy governor Viral Acharya believe that the move to let large corporations own banks is a ‘bad idea.’
Not only would this further consolidate financial power in the ha... |
| 03.11.2020 | Climate Finance Increasing Debt In Poorer Nations, Oxfam Report Finds | 1
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The real value of support provided by developed countries to help poorer nations respond to the climate crisis is far lower than what has been reported, according to a new Oxfam report. It finds that the real figure co... |
| 24.09.2020 | Carbon Emissions Of Richest 1% More Than Double Than Those Of The Poorest 50% | The richest one percent of the world’s population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the 3.1 billion people who made up the poorest half of humanity, according to a new report. |
| 17.09.2020 | Rich Countries Have Already Bought More Than Half of Future Supply of COVID-19 Vaccines | In yet another incident that has made the wealth disparity in the pandemic even more evident, international organisation Oxfam has revealed that wealthy nations—representing just 13 percent of the world population—have already cornered over... |
| 02.08.2020 | How To Start A VC: Interview With Maya Horgan Famodu, Founder, Ingressive Capital | “I have an obligation to use my access to empower the next generation of |
| 26.07.2020 | Should Congress Play a Role in Arms Sales? | Editor’s Note: The Trump administration’s proposal to end the informal practice of notifying Congress well in advance of major arms sales is a departure from long-standing norms and a means of decreasing congressional interference in contro... |
