The combined fortunes of the world’s five richest men have more than doubled to $869 billion since 2020 while five billion people have been made poorer, anti-poverty group Oxfam said. An Oxfam report, which comes as business elites gather this week for the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, found that a billionaire […]
Climate-fueled disasters have forced about 20 million people a year to leave their homes in the past decade — equivalent to one every two seconds — according to a new report from Oxfam. This makes the climate the biggest driver of internal displacement for the period, with the world’s poorer countries at the highest risk, despite their […]
The Minister for Planning, Professor George Gyan-Baffour, has revealed that income inequality in the country has risen from 37% in 1992 to 43% in 2017. Speaking at a technical review meeting organised by the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) in Accra yesterday, under the theme ‘Inclusive development and public policy performance: Prospects for child responsiveness […]
