“Above all, we need this ceasefire not only to hold for the forty-two days, but to become a permanent ceasefire,” said Abby Maxman, president and CEO of Oxfam America, speaking on behalf of a ...

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Davos: The United Kingdom extracted $64.82 trillion from India in 200 years of colonialism and of this $33.8 trillion went to the richest 10 per cent in the UK, finds a report by Oxfam International.

In 2018, they estimated that Britain had drained India of approximately $45 trillion (£36.5 trillion), which was based on a slightly different period – 1765 to 1938 – from the Oxfam timeframe.

Oxfam International’s report highlights how colonial wealth extraction, particularly from India, has laid the foundation for modern economic inequalities, including the dominance of unearned ...

Oxfam and its supporters warn that such concentrations of wealth are unjust and skew political power, while others argue billionaires are often in a better placed to benefit the poor and to solve ...

Wealth extraction from India Oxfam calculated that the wealth extracted from India alone by Britain could carpet London’s surface area in £50 currency notes nearly four times. "This would be ...

Oxfam report said billionaire wealth grew by $2 trillion last year, or roughly $5.7 billion a day, three-times faster than in 2023. Billionaires' wealth grew three times faster in 2024 than the ...

You can get in touch with Shannon by emailing s.mcdonagh@newsweek.com. Languages: English. Oxfam's analysis, based on Forbes' Real-Time Billionaire List and World Bank data, paints a stark picture ...

This forms part of rights group Oxfam International's latest flagship global inequity report released every year on the first day of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. The report ...