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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Top economists call on world leaders to set up an international panel on inequality

South Africa-G20-Inequality - (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Hundreds of top economists and other experts, including former U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, called on Friday for the world to set up an independent international panel on income and wealth inequality.

The call in an open letter came before the Group of 20 summit in South Africa next weekend, when a report on global inequality chaired by Nobel Prize-winning American economist Joseph Stiglitz is due to be presented to world leaders.

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