{"id":74550,"date":"2021-04-14T11:49:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T11:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=74550"},"modified":"2021-04-15T11:48:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T11:48:19","slug":"un-chief-urges-wealth-tax-of-those-who-profited-during-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/74550-un-chief-urges-wealth-tax-of-those-who-profited-during-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"UN chief urges wealth tax of those who profited during COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/04\/photo_2021-04-14_20-12-35-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/04\/photo_2021-04-14_20-12-35-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/04\/photo_2021-04-14_20-12-35-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/04\/photo_2021-04-14_20-12-35-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/04\/photo_2021-04-14_20-12-35-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/04\/photo_2021-04-14_20-12-35.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Secretary-General Antonio Guterres declared Monday that the world\u2019s failure to unite on tackling COVID-19 created wide inequalities, and he called for urgent action including a wealth tax to help finance the global recovery from the coronavirus.<br>The U.N. chief said latest reports indicate that \u201cthere has been a $5 trillion surge in the wealth of the world\u2019s richest in the past year\u201d of the pandemic. He urged governments \u201cto consider a solidarity or wealth tax on those who have profited during the pandemic, to reduce extreme inequalities.\u201d<br>Guterres\u2019 call followed an appeal in October by U.N. World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley to the more than 2,000 billionaires in the world, with a combined net worth of $8 trillion, to open their bank accounts. He warned in November that 2021 would be worse than 2020, and without billions of dollars \u201cwe are going to have famines of biblical proportions in 2021.\u201d<br>Guterres told the U.N. Economic and Social Council\u2019s Forum on Financing for Development that since the pandemic began \u201cno element of our multilateral response has gone as it should.\u201d<br>He pointed to more than 3 million deaths, increasing coronavirus infections, the worst recession in 90 years, some 120 million people falling back into extreme poverty, and the equivalent of 255 million full-time jobs lost.<br>\u201cAdvancing an equitable global response and recovery from the pandemic is putting multilateralism to the test,\u201d he said. \u201cSo far, it is a test we have failed.\u201d<br>\u201cThe vaccination effort is just one example,\u201d Guterres said, stressing that just 10 countries account for around 75% of global vaccinations and many countries haven\u2019t even started vaccinating their health care workers and most vulnerable citizens.<br>Guterres called for urgent action to make vaccines available to everyone, everywhere; to not only help developing countries but middle-income countries in distress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary-General Antonio Guterres declared Monday that the world\u2019s failure to unite on tackling COVID-19 created wide inequalities, and he called for urgent action including a wealth tax to help finance the global recovery from the coronavirus.The U.N. chief said latest reports indicate that \u201cthere has been a $5 trillion surge in the wealth of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":74630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30],"tags":[1680,1254,172],"class_list":["post-74550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-covid-19","tag-tax","tag-united-nations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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