Policy papers

It is high time for all ASEAN Member States to collaborate with one another to improve business environment and agree upon common minimum standards for corporate tax and non-tax incentives in the region. This will prevent harmful practices that drain essential public revenue and create unnecessary...

New global index shows “catastrophic” failure to tackle inequality left majority of world’s countries woefully unprepared for COVID-19 Norway tops index, United States flails at 26, South Sudan ranks last. Overall, Vietnam does well on the Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index (CRII), coming...

Báo cáo Chỉ số Cam kết Giảm bất bình đẳng (CRII) năm 2020 đo lường đa chiều việc thực thi các chính sách nhằm giảm bất bình đẳng của 158 quốc gia trong các lĩnh vực bao gồm: dịch vụ công, thuế lũy tiến và các quyền lao động. Báo cáo CRII năm nay được thực hiện bởi Oxfam và tổ chức Phát triển Tài...

Despite sharp falls in carbon emissions in 2020 linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis – which is driven by the accumulation of emissions in the atmosphere over time – continued to grow. This briefing describes new research that shows how extreme carbon inequality in recent decades has...

The worsening inequality crisis triggered by COVID-19 is fuelled by an economic model that has allowed some of the world’s largest corporations to funnel billions of dollars in profits to shareholders giving yet another windfall to the world’s top billionaires, a small group of mostly white men. At...