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Briefing paper

Takers Not Makers: The unjust poverty and unearned wealth of colonialism

20/01/2025

9 documents

96 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Billionaire wealth has risen three times faster in 2024 than in 2023. Five trillionaires are now expected within a decade. Meanwhile, crises of economy, climate and conflict mean the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since 1990. Most billionaire wealth is taken, not earned- 60% comes from either inheritance, cronyism, corruption or […]

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Briefing paper

Carbon Inequality Kills: Why curbing the excessive emissions of an elite few can create a sustainable planet for all

28/10/2024

8 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The only way to beat climate breakdown and deliver social justice is to radically reduce inequality. This briefing paper reveals the catastrophic climate impacts of the richest individuals in the world, and proposes taking urgent action to protect people and the planet. What little carbon dioxide we can still safely emit is being burned indiscriminately […]

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Research report

The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2024

21/10/2024

7 documents

78 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Now in its fifth edition, the Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index (CRI) assesses the commitment of 164 countries and regions to fighting inequality. The CRI 2024 offers powerful new evidence on whether governments are acting to reduce inequality through policies on public services, fair taxation and labour rights. It reveals negative trends in the vast […]

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Briefing paper

Inequality Inc. How corporate power divides our world and the need for a new era of public action

15/01/2024

9 documents

71 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Since 2020, the richest five men in the world have doubled their fortunes. During the same period, almost five billion people globally have become poorer. Hardship and hunger are a daily reality for many people worldwide. At current rates, it will take 230 years to end poverty, but we could have our first trillionaire in […]

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Campaign report

Climate Equality: A planet for the 99%

20/11/2023

7 documents

136 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, Spanish

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The world faces twin crises of climate breakdown and runaway inequality. The richest people, corporations and countries are destroying the world with their huge carbon emissions. Meanwhile, people living in poverty, those experiencing marginalization, and countries in the Global South are those impacted the hardest. Women and girls, Indigenous Peoples, people living in poverty and […]

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Briefing note

Carbon Billionaires: The investment emissions of the world’s richest people

07/11/2022

5 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The world’s richest people emit huge and unsustainable amounts of carbon and, unlike ordinary people, 50% to 70% of their emissions result from their investments. New analysis of the investments of 125 of the world’s richest billionaires shows that on average they are emitting 3 million tonnes a year, more than a million times the […]

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Research report

The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2022

11/10/2022

12 documents

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish

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The 2022 Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) Index is the first detailed analysis published looking at governments’ policies and actions to fight inequality during the first two years of the pandemic. This fourth edition of the CRI Index reviews the spending, tax and labour policies and actions of 161 governments during 2020–2022. COVID-19 has increased […]

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Briefing paper

Inequality Kills: The unparalleled action needed to combat unprecedented inequality in the wake of COVID-19

17/01/2022

8 documents

60 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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The wealth of the world’s 10 richest men has doubled since the pandemic began. The incomes of 99% of humanity are worse off because of COVID-19. Widening economic, gender, and racial inequalities—as well as the inequality that exists between countries—are tearing our world apart. This is not by chance, but choice: “economic violence” is perpetrated […]

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Briefing paper

The Inequality Virus: Bringing together a world torn apart by coronavirus through a fair, just and sustainable economy

25/01/2021

8 documents

83 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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The coronavirus pandemic has the potential to lead to an increase in inequality in almost every country at once, the first time this has happened since records began. The virus has exposed, fed off and increased existing inequalities of wealth, gender and race. Over two million people have died, and hundreds of millions of people […]

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Research report

Fighting Inequality in the time of COVID-19: The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2020

08/10/2020

13 documents

66 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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The coronavirus pandemic has swept across a world unprepared to fight it, because countries had failed to choose policies to fight inequality. Only one in six countries assessed for the CRI Index 2020 were spending enough on health, only a third of the global workforce had adequate social protection, and in more than 100 countries at […]

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