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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Phillip Inman

More than $70tn of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists warn

Shacks in the front with the skyline of Manila's financial district in the background
The report found inequality was growing in more than eight in 10 of the world’s countries. Photograph: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images

More than $70tn (£53tn) of inherited wealth will pass down the generations across the world over the next decade, widening inequality and highlighting the need for intervention by the G20 group of leading nations, a group of economists and campaigners have warned.

In a report ahead of the G20 meetings in Johannesburg, hosted by the South African government later this month, the expert panel said the gap in global wealth between rich and poor will widen over the next decade without a permanent monitoring group such as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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