25 April 2024 Why we need a global tax on billionaires

    In a joint contribution for the Guardian, Carlos Cuerpo, Enoch Godongwana, Fernando Haddad, Maria Jesús Montero and Svenja Schulze demand a global levy on billionaires.

    When the governors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund convened for the spring meetings last week, it was all about the really big questions. What can the international community do to accelerate decarbonisation and fight climate change? How can highly indebted countries retain fiscal space to invest in poverty eradication, social services and global public goods? [...]

    Read the whole article here.

    It was also published in German in Der Spiegel and in Spanish in El País