Bob Geldofโs firm wanted to buy a chicken farm in Uganda, one of the poorest countries on earth. But first, an errand. After soaring to fame in the 1980s for organizing Live Aid and other anti-famine efforts, the former Boomtown Rats rocker had shifted to the high-powered world of international finance. He founded a U.K.-based […]
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A new Oxfam report shows that the 62 richest billionaires own as much wealth as the poorer half of the worldโs population. Mark Goldring, the Oxfam GB chief executive, said: โIt is simply unacceptable that the poorest half of the world population owns no more than a small group of the global super-rich โ so […]
