An international organization: Two Jordanians own 4 million citizens and 53 families, with a fortune of $50 million each

Oxfam announced that the two richest people in Jordan own more wealth than four million Jordanians.

The wealth of 53 families exceeds $50 million each, and the creation of a fair tax system requires all Jordanians to pay tax responsibly so that the tax burden does not fall on the poor alone,” according to Oxfam’s director in Jordan, Nivedita Monga.

She added in her report entitled "Inequality that Kills" and published today, Monday, that confronting this form of inequality has become more urgent than ever, today we need to tax large fortunes and use these revenues to save people's lives.

In a report published by the Jordanian "Al-Ghad" today, Monga noted that in Jordan, as in the rest of the world, women and girls have suffered greatly when it comes to economic inequality, which has been reinforced by the pandemic.

The rates of gender-based violence have also increased due to the closures - resulting from the pandemic - while the accumulated domestic burdens on women and girls have increased,” Monga added.

The organization's report added that the wealth of the ten richest men in the world more than doubled, from an estimated $700 billion to $1.5 trillion - at a rate of $15,000 per second or $1.3 billion per day - during the first two years of the pandemic, which saw The income of 99 percent of humanity has fallen and more than 160 million more people have been pushed into poverty.

Gabriella Bouchet, executive director of Oxfam, said: “If these 10 men lost 99.999 percent of their wealth tomorrow, they would still be richer than 99 percent of all the people on this planet.

Thus, the wealth they currently own is six times greater than that of the poorest 3.1 billion people.”

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