Billionaires have more money than most of the people in the world

The world's billionaires, who numbered 2,153, now have more money than more than 60% of the world's people, according to the NGO Oxfam.

The organization pointed out that the concentration of wealth at the expense of women, in particular, comes at the forefront of inequalities.

"Amitabh Pahar, who will represent the organization this year at the annual Davos Economic Forum, said in a statement that" the gap between the rich and the poor cannot be solved without deliberate policies to combat inequality. "

"Governments should make sure that companies and the rich pay their fair share of the taxes," he added.

Oxfam's annual report on the disparities in wealth in the world - traditionally - is published ahead of the opening of the annual economic forum in Davos, Switzerland, where the fiftieth session of this traditional meeting of the global economic and political elite will be held on Tuesday, after 2019, which witnessed major social protest movements in Chile and the Middle East, passing through. France.

Obvious disparity
For her part, Pauline Locklear, a spokeswoman for Oxfam in France, stressed in the same statement that "flagrant inequalities are at the heart of social divisions and conflicts around the world (...) they are not inevitable (but) as a result of policies (...) that reduce The participation of the wealthiest in solidarity efforts through taxation, and weakens the financing of public services. "

According to NGO figures whose methodology is based on data published by Forbes and the Credit Suisse bank and contested by some economists, 2153 people currently have more money than the 4.6 billion poorest people, representing 60% of the world's population.

The report indicates that the wealth of the 1% wealthiest in the world represents more than twice the total wealth owned by 6.9 billion people are the least wealthy, or 92% of the world's population.

The report also indicates that the 22 richest men in the world own more than all women living in Africa.

The worst affected women
"Inequality first affects women because of a discriminatory economic system by virtue of their right and confining them to the most fragile and least paid occupations, starting with the care sector," Pauline Locklear explains.

According to calculations made by Oxfam, 42% of women in the world cannot obtain paid work "because of the very large burdens of care in the family context," compared to only 6% of men.

The organization notes that women and girls provide 12.5 billion hours of unpaid care work daily, which is an addition to the economy of at least $ 10.8 trillion annually, which is three times the size of the technology industry in the world.

In France, seven of the billionaires have more money than the poorest, who make up 30% of the population, while the 10% richest among the French own half of the country's wealth, according to the organization.

The WHO report suggested that the world's rich pay extra taxes of 0.5% on their wealth over the next decade, which would be sufficient to create 117 million jobs in areas such as elderly and child care, education and health.