The meeting of the World Economic Forum 2022 is being held in Davos, Switzerland, in which the powerful and rich people of the world have participated. Presenting its research report in this meeting, Oxfam International said that during the Corona epidemic, a new billionaire has emerged in the world every 30 hours, in contrast this year, every 33 hours, one million are going to the pit of poverty.
Presenting a report titled ‘Profit from Pain’ at the World Economic Forum, Oxfam said that the gap between rich and poor has appeared to be widening during the Corona period. Oxfam International Executive Director Gabriella Bucher said that Billionaires is in Davos to celebrate the huge increase in his wealth over the past few years. First the pandemic and now the rise in the cost of food and drink and energy have given them another chance to become richer, while the work done to remove poverty in the last few decades has been washed away and it is again poverty again. Heading towards.”
26 crore people will become poor this year: The report states that every 33 hours in the world, one million people are going to the trough of inflation due to the rise in inflation this year. 26 crore people will become poor.
Increase in the number of rich in the epidemic: According to the report, 574 new billionaires have emerged in front of the world during the pandemic period. In this way, every 30 hours in the last 2 years, the world has got a new billionaire. In the first 24 months of COVID-19, the wealth of billionaires has increased more than in the last 23 years. The total wealth of the world’s billionaires is 13.9 percent of the global GDP, which was 4.4 percent in the year 2000.
According to Oxfam International, there are currently 2688 billionaires in the world with a net worth of $12.7 trillion. It has increased by about $3.78 trillion in the last two years.