The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is underway this week — and there are calls for taxing the extremely rich to address global inequality.

Davos—where the world's richest and most powerful huddle together for public talks. Here's what happened at the forum on ...

Malawi’s richest 10 percent are in control of about a third of the national income, highlighting persisting inequality gaps, ...

Billionaire wealth surged by $2 trillion in 2024, growing three times faster than the previous year, as global inequality ...

Billionaire's wealth has grown faster last year, and now the world can expect at least five trillionaires within a decade, ...

Billionaires' wealth grew three times faster in 2024 than the year before, a top anti-poverty group reported Jan. 20 as some of the world's political and financial ...

Trump's second presidency dominated proceedings at the World Economic Forum amid ominous warnings over the looming threat of ...

Currently the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, with earnings of 430 billion dollars, could become a trillionaire in a few ...

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 ...

As the world economic forum kicks off in Davos, Oxfam is putting the spotlight on wealth inequality. According to the ...

The charity reported that the wealth of the world's billionaires grew from $13 trillion to $15 trillion in 2024, a rate that ...