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Reward work, not wealth: How can we solve the inequality crisis?

Power in the Pandemic

English - January 22, 2018 12:07 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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Last year saw the biggest increase in billionaires in history, one more every two days. This huge increase could have ended global extreme poverty seven times over. 82% of all wealth created in the last year went to the top 1%, and nothing went to the bottom 50%.

 In this podcast, we speak to the authors and advisers of a new Oxfam report "Reward work, not wealth", and discuss the links between inequality and poverty, as well as the solutions that governments and the private sector should adopt.