Oxfam | “This is the first ever meeting of world leaders, in history, where the inequality emergency was put at the center of the agenda. This is testament to South Africa’s leadership – one that put the billions before the billionaires.
Source: Oxfam.
Commissioned by the G20 South Africa Presidency | Inequality is one of the most urgent concerns in the world today, generating many other problems in economies, societies, polities and the environment.
Source: G20 Reports.
openDemocracy | The World Bank says it can fight poverty through technical solutions. But poverty is inherently political. By omitting this dynamic, the World Bank renders the “middle-income trap” a technical problem, when it is in fact deeply political. And technical solutions can’t solve political...
This report presents a proposal for an internationally coordinated standard ensuring an effective taxation of ultra-high-net-worth individuals. In the baseline proposal, individuals with more than $1 billion in wealth would be required to pay a minimum amount of tax annually, equal to 2% of their we...
G20 countries will discuss proposals to make the world’s wealthiest individuals pay more towards funding public goods. The debate is overdue.
The concentration of wealth at the top is higher in the U.S. than in any other rich country. Is there such a thing as “too much” wealth? What if we decided there was?
This video describes wealth inequality in the United States and a radical proposal of what to do about it. Just watch (it is truly...