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Bookmark or Share- Why inequality is different in Japan | World Economic ForumJapan, however, has lower levels of inequality than almost every other developed country. Indeed, though it has long been an industrial powerhouse, Japan is frequently called the world’s most successful communist country.Japan has a high income-tax rate for the rich (45%), and the inheritance tax rate recently was raised to 55%.
- Global income inequality: How big is gap between richest and poorest ...Indeed, while over the last two decades global inequalities between countries have declined, income inequality has increased within most countries. The average income gap between the top 10% and bottom 50% of individuals within countries has almost doubled across that time period, the report found.
- Wealth gap widens as pandemic deepens economic inequality | World ...The main obstacle in 2021 was limited access to doses, with low-income countries suffering the most. Oxfam says people who live in low- and middle-income countries are around twice as likely to die from COVID-19 as those in rich countries. This “vaccine apartheid” is “supercharging inequalities worldwide”, the charity says.
- This is the state of inequality in 2022, according to Oxfam | World ...Last year, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap report found the pandemic had widened the gap from 99 years to 135 years, meaning it would take another generation for women to reach parity. The Oxfam report finds women lost $800 billion in earnings in 2020, with 13 million fewer women in work now than there were in 2019.
- Global Gender Gap Report 2024 | World Economic ForumThe Global Gender Gap Index 2024 benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment). It is the longest-standing index tracking the progress of numerous countries’ efforts towards closing these gaps over time since its inception.
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