World mostly failed to address a “dangerous” increase in inequality in the wake of the Covid pandemic, anti-poverty project Oxfam’s Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index says
The world has mostly failed to address a "dangerous" increase in inequality in the wake of the Covid pandemic, anti-poverty campaigners OxfamThe charity revealed the findings of its "Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index" study, examining actions and policies of governments to tackle inequality in the first two years of Covid.
"Yet the CRI 2022 Index shows clearly that most of the world's governments failed to mitigate this dangerous rise in inequality." However, 143 nations out of the 161 failed to increase taxation on the wealthy — and 11 chose to cut their taxes.
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