The billionaire tax – a (modest) proposal for the 21st century

As recent projections warn that we’re off-track to reduce inequality for the 2030 deadline of the Sustainable Development Goals, the pressing need for equitable tax systems takes center stage at the 28th WIDER Annual Lecture on 4 September 2024. Esteemed economist Gabriel Zucman examines how disparities of current tax structures guarantee this inequality is persistent due to advantages enjoyed by the ultra-wealthy.

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LDC Future Forum 2024 logo search image Enhancing Resilience – LDC Future Forum
Tue, 1 April 2025 09:00 – Thu, 3 April 2025 17:00
Lusaka, Zambia
Presentation
UNU-WIDER at the Fragile Lives 2024 conference

Households in Conflict Network celebrates its 20th anniversary during the conference Fragile Lives 2024 on 1–2 October in Berlin. UNU-WIDER Deputy Director Patricia Justino, one of the founders and directors of the network, hosts a keynote panel at...

Tue, 1 October 2024 09:00 – Wed, 2 October 2024 17:00
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, Berlin, Germany
Open for registration
Presentation
Patricia Justino presents at a UN General Assembly side event

World Bank and Brazil's G20 Presidency host a side event in New York on 23 September 2024 during the UN General Assembly High-level Week. The event gathers ministerial-level participants to discuss pathways to advance on the goal of eradicating...

Mon, 23 September 2024 16:00 – Mon, 23 September 2024 17:30
World Bank New York Office, New York, United States
Seminar
Ben d’Exelle on Climate change, intimate partner violence and fertility
Wed, 18 September 2024
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Presentation
Laura Saavedra-Lux presents at the KIEL-CEPR African Economic Development Conference

Laura Saavedra-Lux, Research Associate at UNU-WIDER, presents her working paper on the connections of foreign direct investment and conflicts at the conference on African economic development (AEDC), organized by the Centre for Economic Policy...

Thu, 12 September 2024
Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin, Germany
Past event
Presentation
UNU-WIDER Research Fellow Pia Rattenhuber presents at CoP meeting

UNU-WIDER Research Fellow Pia Rattenhuber presents at a meeting of the Community of Practice on Tax and Gender (CoP). Together with Laura Abramovsky from ODI/IFS, Pia Rattenhuber will provide an overview of methodologies and discuss implications for...

Tue, 10 September 2024
Online, Washington, D.C., United States
Past event
Seminar
Gabriel Zucman on Taxing capital in a globalized world: the effects of automatic information exchange
Thu, 5 September 2024
Hybrid, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
Presentation
Kunal Sen on The Jobs Challenge in Asia and the Pacific

Kunal Sen joins the UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (RBAP) Economist Network webinar to present on the jobs challenge in Asia-Pacific. The webinar presents insights from the UNU-WIDER book Job Ladder.The webinar tackles the following...

Wed, 4 September 2024
Bangkok, Thailand
Past event
Presentation
Landscape of Prague UNU-WIDER at IIPF Conference 2024
Wed, 21 August 2024 – Fri, 23 August 2024
Prague University of Economics and Business, Prague, Czechia
Past event
Presentation
Kwabena Adu-Ababio's doctoral defense featuring SOUTHMOD research

UNU-WIDER Research Associate Kwabena Adu-Ababio defends his doctoral thesis on 13 September 2024. His dissertation, titled 'Essays on Social Assistance and Tax Administration in Selected Developing Economies', explores critical issues in tax policy...

Helsinki, Finland
Seminar
papers and calculator on table SA-TIED Seminar Series: Exploring options to deepen and broaden the personal income tax base in South Africa
Thu, 11 July 2024
Online - Zoom, Pretoria, South Africa
Past event
Presentation
Routine-biased technological change and inequality in developing countries

UNU-WIDER Director Kunal Sen speaks at the 4th Development Economics Conference at the University of Lincoln. His session will share new findings on the relationship between earnings inequality or wage polarization and globalization, technological...

Mon, 24 June 2024 – Wed, 26 June 2024
Lincoln International Business School, University of Lincoln , Lincoln, United Kingdom
Past event
Presentation
Global governance and sustainable development: revitalizing research to support multilateral solutions

UNU-WIDER is represented at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Academic Council of the United Nations (ACUNS) by Rachel M. Gisselquist, where she will share research findings on addressing gender and group-based inequalities and multilateral efforts to...

Thu, 20 June 2024 – Sat, 22 June 2024
United Nations University – Tokyo, 5-53-70, Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Past event
Presentation
UNU-WIDER research presented at 2024 ATI General Assembly

UNU-WIDER Research Fellow Pia Rattenhuber presents, 'Practical benefits of exploiting the complementarity between research and development – examples from sub-Saharan Africa' at the 2024 ATI General Assembly.Domestic Revenue Mobilization (DRM)...

Tue, 18 June 2024 – Thu, 20 June 2024
Online, Bonn, Germany
Past event
Presentation
UNU-WIDER at the 2024 Nordic Conference for Development Economics

UNU-WIDER Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow Jukka Pirttilä takes part in the Nordic Conference in Development Economics, NCDE 2024, organized by the University of Copenhagen. The event will take place 17-18 June 2024, in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Mon, 17 June 2024 – Tue, 18 June 2024
Copenhagen, Denmark
Past event
Presentation
@Equal project disseminates findings at the 2024 Nordic Conference for Development Economics

Researchers with The impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governance – @EQUAL project present their WIDER Working Papers at the 2024 Nordic Conference for Development Economics in Copenhagen, Denmark. Full programme Presentations...

Mon, 17 June 2024 – Tue, 18 June 2024
Finland
Past event
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