Since 1995, the richest 1% have captured almost 20 times more of the world’s wealth than the poorest 50%. Oxfam has entitled its latest report “Inequalities kill”. Indeed, as Gabriela Bucher, Executive Director of Oxfam International, put it: “the world’s response to the pandemic has led to a worsening of all types of inequality. Not only does inequality create unhealthier and unhappier societies, it is violent. Inequality kills.
