Ireland has 17 billionaires, a number Oxfam describes as "disproportionately high" - behind only Hong Kong, Cyprus, Switzerland and Singapore in terms of the number of billionaires relative to the population.

Oxfam has called for swifter action against tax avoidance by multinationals after its research showed pharmaceutical firms used Irish tax law to reduce the amount of corporation tax they paid — to zero in one case.

The ministers, including Paschal Donohoe, are meeting in Brussels today and will be discussing the fallout from the so-called Paradise Papers.

A major international leak of more than 13 million files - known as the Paradise Papers - reveal how the super-rich invest vast amounts of money in offshore tax havens.

Back in 2009 Britain’s Liberal Democrat spokesman Matthew Oakeshott described Dublin as “Liechtenstein on the Liffey”.

Oxfam Ireland is entering formal discussions with GOAL on a potential merger, it has emerged today.

The Department of Finance was wrong to claim the European Commission misinterpreted Irish tax laws over the Apple tax scandal, a minister has conceded yesterday.

It is thought Yemen is a few months away from running out of food for its whole population.

As the World Humanitarian Summit is held in Istanbul, Oxfam Ireland CEO Jim Clarken says Europe could learn a lot from Tanzania’s solidarity with and generosity towards refugees

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Irish development organisations have dismissed the European Commission’s latest attempt to crackdown on global tax avoidance as a “woefully inadequate” token gesture.

Growing inequality means that the world’s 62 wealthiest people own as much as the poorest half of the planet’s population — approximately 3.6 billion people — according to a new report from Oxfam.

A landmark decision that two iconic multinationals, Fiat and Starbucks, avoided paying their fair share of tax, facilitated by the Luxembourg and Dutch authorities, respectively, may be appealed to the European Court of Justice.

Aid agencies and rights groups have accused the Government of shutting them out of efforts to tackle the refugee crisis.

Pressure is growing on the Government to act immediately to take in refugees risking death to reach mainland Europe instead of waiting for instructions to come from the EU.

GOAL has dispatched an emergency response team to Nepal to support relief efforts following the worst earthquake to hit the country in 80 years.

Oxfam is calling on the Taoiseach to help drive discussion about tackling global inequality.

The richest 1% of people in the world will have more wealth than all the rest of us combined by next year if the current inequality trend continues, a new report from Oxfam has suggested.

In this week’s column, Kehlan looks at women in business and why feminism needs to stage a comeback.

Women in the world’s major G20 economies will have to wait 75 years to earn as much as men, according to an Oxfam report published yesterday.

A surgeon to the stars, a humanitarian, a business leader, and a pioneering dental researcher who has inspired a generation of dentists, are to be honoured by their university for making their mark on the world stage.

DESCRIBED as unrealistic and unattainable, the Millennium Development Goals adopted by the UN in 2000 were initially dismissed as requiring too much progress too fast.

Austerity is filling the coffers of the country’s richest 10% and creating poverty among an increasing number of the general population, an EU-wide study has found.

Charities are warning of crippling food price rises here and worldwide if immediate action is not taken to counteract the effects of climate change.

Irish people are the biggest chocolate consumers in the world, but cocoa farmers earn little more than the cost of a bar a day, writes Jim Clarken

THE number of famine zones in Somalia was cut in half yesterday, as US and UN food agencies said aid had reduced death rates.

INTERNATIONAL governments have collectively failed to act to prevent the famine declared yesterday in two regions of Somalia, according to the head of Oxfam Ireland.

THE international aid organisation Oxfam has hit out at the Government’s decision to slash overseas aid and for its continuing failure to fulfil promises to increase assistance to poorer nations.

Millions of people living with the effects of climate change are at risk of starving to death in east Africa, and Irish aid agency said today.

CHILDREN as young as four are being raped by rebels in the Congo, according to a shocking survey by Oxfam Ireland.

OVERSEAS aids agencies reacted with shock and horror at the €100 million cut in Ireland’s overseas aid budget announced by Brian Lenihan.

Overseas aid agency Oxfam Ireland has said it deplores today’s cut in Ireland's aid budget.

LEADING aid agencies last night accused the Government of hypocrisy as Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin defended the €95 million cut in overseas aid.