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High Levels Of Inequality Leading To Low Health Security, More Pandemics: UN Report
Inequality is undermining national and global efforts to combat pandemics, making them more disruptive, deadly, and longer in duration, according to a global report by UNAIDS on Monday.
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Inequality Making World More Prone To Pandemics: UN Report
The report called on world leaders to increase pandemic preparedness by investing in "social protection mechanisms" within their countries while also tackling global inequality, including through debt restructuring for developing countries.
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Over 16 Crore More People Forced Into Poverty In 2 Years Of Pandemic: Report
The first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic saw incomes of 99 per cent of humanity fall and over 16 crore people were forced into poverty even as the world's ten richest men saw their fortune more than double to USD 1.5 trillion (over Rs 111 lakh c
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Wealth Of World's 10 Richest Men Doubled During Pandemic: Report
The world's 10 wealthiest men doubled their fortunes during the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic as poverty and inequality soared, a report said on Monday.
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"I'm A Workaholic," IMF's Gita Gopinath Tells NDTV: Top Quotes
IMF chief Gita Gopinath spoke to NDTV on the pandemic, vaccine inequity amid Omicron threat, and economic challenges and opportunities in India. She also gave a message to the government.
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IMF's Gita Gopinath Speaks To NDTV: Highlights
IMF chief Gita Gopinath spoke to NDTV on the pandemic, vaccine inequity amid Omicron threat, and economic challenges and opportunities in India. Ms Gopinath underlined the need for vaccination "on a war footing".
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Vaccines? Booster Jabs? Economic Crisis? What's Next For Covid Pandemic
The world could see the Covid pandemic begin fading next year into an endemic disease like others humanity lives with, unless glaring inequality in vaccine access drags it out and worse variants emerge.
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Rulers Need To Introspect Everyday, Says Chief Justice NV Ramana
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed deep-rooted vulnerabilities of our society and has increased inequality, Chief Justice Of India N V Ramana said today at the 40th convocation of Sri Sathya Sai Institute Of Higher Learning in Andhra Pradesh.
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Growing Inequality Gaps Amid Pandemic "Unacceptable": US Vice President
The world must work together to narrow inequality gaps on issues including poverty, health and gender inclusion that have only grown during the Covid-19 pandemic, US Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday.
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Determined To Fulfill Duty, Virus Fight "Top Priority": Japan's New PM
Japan's new prime minister Fumio Kishida pledged to combat the pandemic with fresh stimulus and fight income inequality after lawmakers voted him leader of the world's third-largest economy on Monday.
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Opinion: Luxury And Hunger, The Two Faces Of An Unequal Pandemic
Mercedes-Benz AG recently introduced its Maybach sport utility vehicle in India -- right in the middle of a fierce second wave of the pandemic.
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Lockdown Made India's Billionaires 35% Richer, Lakhs Lost Jobs: Oxfam
The coronavirus pandemic has worsened existing income inequalities between India's super-rich and its crores of unskilled, and often unemployed, men and women, non-profit group Oxfam said Monday in a report to be tabled at the World Economic Forum at Switzerland's Davos.
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As Covid Ravaged World, Billionaires Got Richer By $3.9 Trillion: Oxfam
The coronavirus pandemic has reinforced frightening income inequalities - and their consequent impact on access to education, healthcare and all hope of a better life - between the world's super-rich and the hundreds of millions of people who live and die in abject poverty, non-profit group Oxfam said Monday in a report to be tabled at the Davos su...
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Human Rights Day 2020: "Recover Better - Stand Up For Human Rights"
Human Rights Day: The pandemic has pushed innumerable people to the brink. Inequality, poverty and discrimination have been deepening globally. In order to "build back better", the widening gap among people must be addressed, according to the United Nations. Human Rights Day is observed on December 10 every year
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COVID-19 Precipitated An Education Crisis: UNESCO Report
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an education crisis, fuelled by deep and multiple forms of inequality having gender roots and implications, the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) report by UNESCO has pointed out.
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High Levels Of Inequality Leading To Low Health Security, More Pandemics: UN Report
Inequality is undermining national and global efforts to combat pandemics, making them more disruptive, deadly, and longer in duration, according to a global report by UNAIDS on Monday.
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Inequality Making World More Prone To Pandemics: UN Report
The report called on world leaders to increase pandemic preparedness by investing in "social protection mechanisms" within their countries while also tackling global inequality, including through debt restructuring for developing countries.
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Over 16 Crore More People Forced Into Poverty In 2 Years Of Pandemic: Report
The first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic saw incomes of 99 per cent of humanity fall and over 16 crore people were forced into poverty even as the world's ten richest men saw their fortune more than double to USD 1.5 trillion (over Rs 111 lakh c
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Wealth Of World's 10 Richest Men Doubled During Pandemic: Report
The world's 10 wealthiest men doubled their fortunes during the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic as poverty and inequality soared, a report said on Monday.
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"I'm A Workaholic," IMF's Gita Gopinath Tells NDTV: Top Quotes
IMF chief Gita Gopinath spoke to NDTV on the pandemic, vaccine inequity amid Omicron threat, and economic challenges and opportunities in India. She also gave a message to the government.
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IMF's Gita Gopinath Speaks To NDTV: Highlights
IMF chief Gita Gopinath spoke to NDTV on the pandemic, vaccine inequity amid Omicron threat, and economic challenges and opportunities in India. Ms Gopinath underlined the need for vaccination "on a war footing".
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Vaccines? Booster Jabs? Economic Crisis? What's Next For Covid Pandemic
The world could see the Covid pandemic begin fading next year into an endemic disease like others humanity lives with, unless glaring inequality in vaccine access drags it out and worse variants emerge.
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Rulers Need To Introspect Everyday, Says Chief Justice NV Ramana
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed deep-rooted vulnerabilities of our society and has increased inequality, Chief Justice Of India N V Ramana said today at the 40th convocation of Sri Sathya Sai Institute Of Higher Learning in Andhra Pradesh.
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Growing Inequality Gaps Amid Pandemic "Unacceptable": US Vice President
The world must work together to narrow inequality gaps on issues including poverty, health and gender inclusion that have only grown during the Covid-19 pandemic, US Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday.
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Determined To Fulfill Duty, Virus Fight "Top Priority": Japan's New PM
Japan's new prime minister Fumio Kishida pledged to combat the pandemic with fresh stimulus and fight income inequality after lawmakers voted him leader of the world's third-largest economy on Monday.
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Opinion: Luxury And Hunger, The Two Faces Of An Unequal Pandemic
Mercedes-Benz AG recently introduced its Maybach sport utility vehicle in India -- right in the middle of a fierce second wave of the pandemic.
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Lockdown Made India's Billionaires 35% Richer, Lakhs Lost Jobs: Oxfam
The coronavirus pandemic has worsened existing income inequalities between India's super-rich and its crores of unskilled, and often unemployed, men and women, non-profit group Oxfam said Monday in a report to be tabled at the World Economic Forum at Switzerland's Davos.
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As Covid Ravaged World, Billionaires Got Richer By $3.9 Trillion: Oxfam
The coronavirus pandemic has reinforced frightening income inequalities - and their consequent impact on access to education, healthcare and all hope of a better life - between the world's super-rich and the hundreds of millions of people who live and die in abject poverty, non-profit group Oxfam said Monday in a report to be tabled at the Davos su...
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Human Rights Day 2020: "Recover Better - Stand Up For Human Rights"
Human Rights Day: The pandemic has pushed innumerable people to the brink. Inequality, poverty and discrimination have been deepening globally. In order to "build back better", the widening gap among people must be addressed, according to the United Nations. Human Rights Day is observed on December 10 every year
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COVID-19 Precipitated An Education Crisis: UNESCO Report
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an education crisis, fuelled by deep and multiple forms of inequality having gender roots and implications, the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) report by UNESCO has pointed out.
