The report is based on data collected from more than 100 WID.world Fellows across five continents, compiled, unified and fed into the World Wealth and Income Database (see www.wid.world/team for more information).
WID.world combines different data sources: national accounts, survey data, fiscal data, and wealth rankings. By doing so, it becomes possible to track more precisely the evolution of all income or wealth levels, from the bottom to the top. The key novelty of WID.world is to use such data in a system...
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...
Human Rights Watch | UN member countries should work to align the emerging United Nations tax convention with international human rights law to achieve its objective of advancing sustainable development, seven human rights groups said today in a submission to the Intergovernmental Negotiating Commit...