The Guardian | Rising economic division is destabilising nations and eroding accountability. Joseph Stiglitz’s G20 blueprint offers a way toward global economic renewal.
Source: The Guardian.
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...
Less is more. How degrowth will save the world.
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause. Capitalism demands perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will le...
Realtime Inequality - Who Benefits from Income and Wealth Growth in the United States?
Realtime Inequality provides the first timely statistics on how economic growth is distributed across groups. When new growth numbers come out each quarter, the economists from Berekely show how each income and...