UN | Development financing trends are going in the wrong direction, the United Nations warned today. In many areas, progress has not only stalled but is reversing due to weakened global collaboration, rising trade barriers, increased geopolitical tensions, repeated climate-related shocks, and an ala...
Tax Justice Network | After four sessions of (sometimes heated) warm-up, the negotiations of the Convention are now entering into ‘crunch time’. Over the summer and in anticipation of the Fifth Session of negotiations in August, all three workstreams are expected to deliver new draft text of parts o...
Oxfam | The amount of untaxed wealth hidden offshore by the richest 0.1 percent exceeds the entire wealth of the poorest half of humanity (4.1 billion people), reveals new Oxfam analysis published today ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Panama Papers. The findings show that, a decade later, the s...
Press Release | The increase in value-added tax (VAT) currently being discussed by the federal government to cover public financing needs would be disastrous from both a distributional and economic perspective. It would primarily affect people with low and middle incomes, as well as transfer recipie...
LSE | Do technological advances complement human labour, boosting productivity and wages? Or do they lead to workers being displaced? There are examples of both dynamics. But new research from Raquel Sebastián, Pedro Salas-Rojo, Juan César Palomino and Juan Gabriel Rodríguez looks at the net effec...
idw | In recent decades, income and wealth disparities have widened significantly in many European countries. At the same time, support for populist parties has grown. Previous studies have already pointed out that rising inequality may be contributing to the growth of populist movements. But how ca...