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A viable billionaire tax?

Report / 27th January 2017

A new paper makes the case that a global billionaire tax is ethical, good for growth, and could solve a lot of the world’s problems - and what’s more, it’s politically viable, explains Josh Hoxie.

The great British make off: how a new materialism can give us back control

Blog / 25th January 2017

The New Economics Foundation has long made the case for a richer relationship with 'stuff' that can help turn the tables on our abusive consumer culture. The good news is that a new form of materialism is already emerging; everywhere people are beginning to make, do, share and get involved, writes Ruth Potts.

Aid in reverse: how poor countries develop rich countries

Article / 20th January 2017

New research on global financial flows shows that the usual development narrative has it backwards; aid is effectively flowing in reverse. And some of the very countries that so love to tout their foreign aid contributions are the ones enabling mass theft from developing countries, argues Jason Hickel.

One-percenters, pay your taxes

Article / 20th January 2017

Is there anything that the world's corporations can do about the scourge of inequality? The answer is yes, but it means rewriting the economic rules - for the only sustainable prosperity is shared prosperity, writes Joseph E. Stiglitz.

People’s power vs. rising inequality: Demanding change locally, nationally, & globally

Report / 19th January 2017

As the world’s media showcase Donald Trump and the World Economic Forum, ActionAid urge us to stay focused on the presence of social movements that pose the real solution to rising inequality. Only people’s power, united across borders, can reverse the hoarding of power and wealth by a tiny elite, re-democratizing our politics, our societies, and our economies. The following extract is taken from ActionAid's latest brief [pdf] that summarises the publications from its Inequality Series.