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How multinationals continue to avoid paying hundreds of billions of dollars in tax: New research
Tax havens have become a defining feature of the global financial system. Multinational companies can use various schemes to avoid paying taxes in countries where they make vast revenues...
corporate income tax Taxation Profit shiftingJournal Special Issue
Horizontal inequality in the Global South: Data, measurement, and trendsInequality and social exclusion receive considerable contemporary policy attention...
Ethnic group Group-based inequality Horizontal inequalityPolicy Brief
Horizontal inequality: Global trends and data challengesInequality—both vertical (between individuals and households) and horizontal (between groups)—is a core concern in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development...
Group-based inequality Horizontal inequality Ethnic groupJournal Article
Estimating the scale of profit shifting and tax revenue losses related to foreign direct investmentPart of Journal Special Issue Public economics and development action
Foreign Direct Investment corporate income tax tax avoidanceProject workshop
Social mobility in developing countries — concepts, methods, and determinants
In the media
Inequality expert for SA-TIED hosted on South African national news channel eNCA
Poverty Class Inequality Journal Article
Fiscal Pressure of Migration and Horizontal Fiscal Inequality: Evidence from Indian ExperienceThis article examines the patterns and trends in inter‐State migration across the Indian States and observes that along with the demographic factors, migration is also affected by the fiscal profile of States...
Migration Inequality DemographySeminar
Charles Gore on Inequality Reduction as a Global Goal: The Nature and Logic of SDG 10Charles Gore presented at the WIDER Seminar Series on 19 June 2019. Abstract – Inequality Reduction as a Global Goal: The Nature and Logic of SDG 10 Presentation slides An important feature of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed as...
Journal Article
Estimating the scale of profit shifting and tax revenue losses related to foreign direct investmentGovernments’ revenues are lower when multinational enterprises avoid paying corporate income tax by shifting their profits to tax havens...
Foreign Direct Investment corporate income tax tax avoidanceJournal Article
Investigating Growing Inequality in MozambiquePart of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries
Inequality Mozambique DecompositionResearch Brief
Seminar
Rachel Gisselquist presents in an expert group meeting on inequalityUNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow Rachel Gisselquist will give a presentation at an expert group meeting ‘ Reducing Inequalities: SDG 10 Progress and Prospects ’, organized by the World Bank and UN DESA in Geneva 2-3 April. The event will...
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Legal Empowerment and Group-Based InequalityPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
Legal empowerment Ethnicity Horizontal inequality