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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Annual Lecture
The billionaire tax – a (modest) proposal for the 21st century
Wed, 4 September 2024
Juhlasali in the Aalto University Töölö building, Runeberginkatu 14–16, Helsinki, Finland
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AL27-thumbnail Globalization in crisis – confronting a new economic reality
Tue, 10 October 2023
The Gamle Festsal (Old Assembly Hall) in the Domus Academica of the University of Oslo, Karl Johans gate 47, Oslo, Norway
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WIDER Annual Lecture 26 - In the name of progress: Will technology solve inequality?
Fri, 7 October 2022
Universidad de los Andes, Cra. 1 #18a-12, Bogotá, Colombia
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WIDER Annual Lecture 25 - Women’s struggle for land in South Asia: Can legal reforms trump social norms?
Thu, 9 December 2021
Online, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 24 - UN at 75: slow death or new direction?
Mon, 26 October 2020
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WIDER Annual Lecture 23 - Informality: addressing the Achilles heel of social protection in Latin America
Wed, 30 October 2019
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Maison de la Paix, Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2, Geneva, Switzerland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 22 - The political economy of structural transformation: has democracy failed African economies?
Fri, 14 September 2018
Europaea hall, Marina Congress Centre, Katajanokanlaituri 6A, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 21 - How are people poor? Measuring global progress towards zero poverty and the SDGs
Tue, 24 October 2017
Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 20 - Direct interventions against poverty in poor places
Wed, 23 March 2016
Stockholm School of Economics, Aula, Sveavägen 65 (entrance from Bertil Ohlins gata), Stockholm, Sweden
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WIDER Annual Lecture 19 - Three Decades of Change in Development
Sat, 19 September 2015
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 18 - Managing Structural Transformation Post-2015
Tue, 18 November 2014
Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium, New York, United States
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WIDER Annual Lecture 17 - Egalitarian Principles
Thu, 19 September 2013
Europaea Hall, Marina Congress Centre, Katajanokanlaituri 6 A, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 16 - The folk and the formula
Thu, 27 September 2012
House of Nobility, Ritarikatu 1, Helsinki, Finland
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WIDER Annual Lecture 15 - New Structural Economics
Wed, 4 May 2011
Centro Internacional de Conferências Joaquim Chissano, Avenida Marginal 4441, Maputo, Mozambique
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WIDER Annual Lecture 14 - Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Architecture
Thu, 9 December 2010
UN Headquarters, 1st Avenue, New York, United States
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WIDER Annual Lecture 13 - The Trade-Development Nexus in Theory and History
Wed, 21 October 2009
Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, Finland
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