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It was, of course, the Right to Life Tax, proposed by Brazil, India, China, Russia and South Africa in 2020 and passed by the UN in 2025.  Committing 2% of the world's annual corporate tax revenue to households earning less that $2 a day, the Tax gave nearly half of the world's population the means to exert democracy.

Klong Toey Slum, Bangkok, Thailand. Demotix: Matt: all rights reserved.
Klong Toey Slum, Bangkok, Thailand. Demotix: Matt: all rights reserved.

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Klong Toey Slum, Bangkok, Thailand. Demotix: Matt: all rights reserved.


Author: Ash Amin

Ash Amin

Ash Amin is Professor of Geography at Cambridge University. His current writing deals with questions of intolerance in Europe, urban resilience in the North and South, and the challenges of left rene

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