Economic Policy Institute | The intertwining of racial hierarchies and economic policy as a historical pattern has paved the way for vast inequality: by sowing distrust of government, dismantling institutions aimed at equity, and targeting nonwhite communities, political forces weaken cross-racial w...
CEPR | There have long been concerns that US Supreme Court decisions increasingly favour economic elites. This column analyses 1,782 cases from 1953 to 2022 to examine how justices’ rulings directly shift economic resources between the ‘rich’ and ‘poor’. In the 1950s, Democratic- and Republican-appo...
L’Osservatore Romano | There is a type of work that continues to be unrecognized as such. It is the work of caring, of relationships, of daily organisation that ensures the survival of families and the cohesion of communities, that contributes to GDP, and that weighs disproportionately on women. It...
Tax Justice Network | The fourth session of negotiations on a world-first UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation concluded last week in New York, bringing countries significantly closer to a consolidated zero draft ahead of the August negotiation session. Over eight days, governmen...
Tax Justice Network | Starbucks provides a great example of how the current global tax system is abused in order to shift profits from producer countries in the Global South to multinational corporations headquartered in the Global North. It also shows why the current UN Tax Convention negotiations...
Tax Justice Network | The International Chamber of Commerce has published, circulated among delegates, and promoted at a side event a report claiming that the global implementation of withholding taxes under Article 12AA of the UN Model would produce net losses for the global South.
The Tax Justic...