Welcome to a World Twin, a podcast from JV Magazine. I'm Grace Blakely bringing you

your weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action from around the world. This week

I talked to Max Lawson of Oxfam about their new report in equality pills. There's a link

to the report in the description of this episode to make sure you go and check it out. There's

lots of fascinating stats in that report. And we talk about loads of different things relating

to inequality and why it increased so much over the course of the pandemic. So we look

at economic inequality, income and wealth inequality, but also gender and racial inequality,

inequality between countries, which is really significant in terms of affecting the ability

of lots of states to repay debts and also having a massive impact on poverty all around

the world. And we also talk about things like how inequality is affecting our ability to

tackle climate breakdown and how it's affecting democracy. The great episode this week.

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has exploded so much over the course of the pandemic.

Hello, I am here with Max Lawson of Oxfam to talk about Oxfam's new report on billionaire

wealth inequality kills. Hi Max, how you doing today? I'm really well, thanks Grace.

Good. So this report is fascinating. It's full of just incredible stats. Can you start by

telling us some of the main findings of the report? This is your annual Davos report, I think,

isn't it? So what is the top line, what are the main stats? I think I mean, I'll be working on

these kind of billionaire facts every year for quite some time. And I think the main headline this year

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