Billionaires 4,000 times more likely to hold political office than ordinary people – Oxfam

Billionaires are now 4,000 times more likely to hold political office than ordinary citizens, according to a new Oxfam report released today as world leaders and corporate elites meet at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Oxfam Pilipinas and Coastal CORE, Incorporated swiftly deployed a rapid assessment team to Albay, Bicol, to understand the urgent needs of families displaced by Mayon Volcano's eruption.

Maaasahan ninyo na kaisa ang Oxfam Pilipinas sa pagpapalakas ng tinig ng mga kababaihan, hanggang sa makatawid ito mula sa mga isla't pamayanan patungo sa plenaryo.

A new study revealed that the economic, health, and education inequalities, compounded by the disasters and crises, are pushing Filipinos further into disparity. This deepening inequality positions the Philippines as the 15th most unequal country globally and with the starkest divide in Southeast Asia.

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An elderly Indigenous woman purchases food ahead of Cyclone Trami’s landfall in the Philippines. Credit: Humanity & Inclusion

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The report, Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster, presents extensive new updated data and analysis which finds that a person from the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than the poorest 50% emit all year. If everyone emitted like the richest 0.1%, the carbon budget would be used up in less than 3 weeks.

A new Oxfam study has revealed that the world’s richest 0.1% produce more carbon emissions in a single day than the poorest 50% generate all year. It warned that if everyone emitted like the richest 0.1%, humanity would exhaust the world’s carbon budget in under three weeks.

Billionaires 4,000 times more likely to hold political office than ordinary people – Oxfam

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