Publications
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
THE TECHNICAL AND POLITICAL VIABILITY OF THE BILLIONAIRE TAX
June 2024
In February and April 2024, the finance ministers of the world’s 20 largest economies discussed a proposal to institute a 2% annual minimum tax on billionaires’ wealth. This paper explores the technical and political viability of this proposal in today’s world.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Equal International’s response to the Norwegian Expert Group report ‘Investing in a Common Future’
October 2023
The Norwegian Expert Group report ‘Investing in a Common Future’ sets out recommendations to the Norwegian government to advance its approach to international cooperation, with particular attention to the role of financing for global challenges such as climate change. In our response paper we set out our recommendations to the Norwegian government, to adopt and build on the Expert Group’s recommendations using Global Public Investment principles as a framework for strengthening cooperation around global public goods.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Advancing Global Public Investment (GPI)
Wilton Park Meeting Report
September 2023
As part of Equal’s ongoing thought leadership work on GPI, Equal convened a High-level Thought Leaders Working Group in partnership with Wilton Park (Executive Agency of the UK Government’s FCDO). The working group is an international, multistakeholder group including former decision makers, government agencies, civil society, southern-based think tanks, multilateral agencies and foundations. The group were brought together to cocreate answers to key questions on the political appetite and pathway for the adoption of GPI principles, to secure equitable financing and governance for a ‘global common good agenda’. The report captures key insights from the meeting including evolving political narratives and an international framework of principles, southern leadership, key policy windows for advocacy, pathways for piloting and early adoption, and the role of the private sector.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Addressing 21 Century Challenges: Global Public Investment for the Common Good
Briefing Paper - High-level Thought Leaders' Working Group
5–7 June 2023
Having convened the Expert Working Group on GPI, which concluded that the principles of ‘all contribute, all benefit, all decide’ can be the basis for cooperation in raising and disbursing the significant resources needed to address common challenges, Equal is partnering with Southern-based think tanks and Wilton Park to convene a ‘political cocreation’ process to support the adoption of a new framework. The questions and issues raised in this Briefing Paper provide a stepping-off point for the work of this partnership. This is the first in a series of events and the insights and outputs from this cocreation process will be shared and linked with the work of other stakeholders and networks more broadly to support cross-sector collaboration and advocacy.
Expert Working Group Recommendations
The Expert Working Group on Global Public Investment (EWG-GPI) Recommendations is the product of an 18 month cocreation journey convened by Equal International, building on a global consultation. The Recommendations set out key pathways forward for the ongoing cocreation and realisation of GPI.
RECENT ASSIGNMENTS
Advocacy on the Financial Intermediary Fund (FIF) for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPR)
Equal is working with partners to advocate for the principles of Global Public Investment (GPI) to be central in the formation of the World Bank’s new PPR FIF, to ensure that the new fund is equitable and fit for the modern era.
RECENT ASSIGNMENTS
Concept Paper on GPI for Pandemic Preparedness and Response
Equal convened a cocreation process with an interdisciplinary expert panel to develop a concept paper on Global Public Investment (GPI) for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (PPR). This foundational work helped to advance the technical and political feasibility of GPI for PPR as well as GPI governance as it relates to other critical global challenges more broadly.
RECENT ASSIGNMENTS
Best Practice in Consultation and Cocreation
Equal was born out of treatment activist and health equity movements wherein the principle of “nothing about us without us” is central. We know consultation and cocreation are critical to good policies and programmes, so we developed this best practice resource to help codify participatory policy and programme design and ensure that Global Public Investment (GPI) is cocreated from the ground up.
