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World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers
News / 5th August 2024The world’s 3,000 billionaires should pay a minimum 2% tax on their fast-growing wealth to raise £250bn a year for the global fight against poverty, inequality and global heating, ministers from four leading economies have suggested.
Starvation in Sudan
Article / 5th August 2024Sadly, there are many striking parallels between the wars being waged on the civilian populations of Sudan and Gaza. Neither populations have received what they most urgently need: an end to their respective conflicts, writes Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox.
Healthy diets remain unaffordable for a third of the world’s population
News / 2nd August 2024More than a third of the world’s population could not afford a healthy diet in 2022, according to the latest data on hunger from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
The Spirit Level at 15
Report / 30th July 202415 years later, an update of the Spirit Level underscores how inequality harms us all and lies at the root of our escalating environmental, health and social crises.
Fight against global hunger set back 15 years, warns UN report
News / 25th July 2024Progress fighting global hunger has been set back 15 years, leaving around 733 million people going hungry in 2023, according to the latest figures from the United Nations.
Developing countries face worst debt crisis in history, study shows
Report / 23rd July 2024Developing countries are facing the worst debt crisis in history with almost half their budgets being spent on paying back their creditors, a study has found.
Obsession with growth is enriching elites and killing the planet. We need an economy based on human rights
Blog / 12th July 2024Economic growth allows the few to grow ever-wealthier. Ending poverty and environmental catastrophe demands fresh thinking, writes Olivier De Schutter.
Former heads of state and government call on President Biden and fellow G20 leaders to back global deal to tax the ultra-rich
News / 12th July 2024Close to 20 former heads of state have called on current G20 leaders to support a ‘new global deal to tax the world’s ultra-rich individuals’ in an open letter.
Hundreds of charities push for hardship to be top of British Prime Minister’s priorities from day one
News / 1st July 2024Share The World's Resources has joined over 200 organisations committed to ending poverty in calling on the next British Prime Minister to put tackling hardship at the top of their agenda from day one.
A tax on the super-rich to fight hunger gains ground
Article / 28th June 2024A global agreement could levy a small tax on the world’s 3,000 richest people, with fortunes in excess of US$1 billion, and use the money to fight world hunger, a study by the Brazilian government and the European Union’s Tax Observatory has shown.