Author: Sarah Saadoun

[Sarah Saadoun is a senior advisor on economic inequality at Human Rights Watch] Diplomats from dozens of countries gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, in November for a new round of negotiations on a United Nations treaty for international tax cooperation. The scene itself is important: representatives from across the globe meeting in an African capital, under the UN’s auspices, to shape economic...

[Gene Leon is Executive Director of the Development Bank for Resilient Prosperity and former director of the Caribbean Development Bank. Sarah Saadoun is a senior economic development and rights researcher at Human Rights Watch.] The G-20, a group of nations that account for 80 percent of global GDP and two-thirds of the world’s population, met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in...