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27/01/2025

A World Where Rich Get Richer, Poor Get Poorer — and Billionaires Rise

Human Wrongs Watch

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 21 2025 (IPS)* 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 extreme poverty by 2030. But that elusive goal has made little or no significant progress.
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Credit: UN Women

And now comes a new report from Oxfam,Takers Not Makers which finds that in 2024 alone, billionaires amassed $2 trillion in wealth, and nearly four new billionaires were minted every week.

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