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Düsen für die Entwicklungshilfe?
Jakob von Weizsäcker argues that the call for global taxes to fund additional development assistance is a good idea in principle but might be a flawed in practice since both have a weak lobby. Instead, the additional development assistance should be funded by national budgets and the call to introduce global taxes should be combined […]
Jakob von Weizsäcker argues that the call for global taxes to fund additional development assistance is a good idea in principle but might be a flawed in practice since both have a weak lobby. Instead, the additional development assistance should be funded by national budgets and the call to introduce global taxes should be combined with expenditure plans that have more powerful lobbies. An abbreviated version of this article has appeared in the German weekly DIE ZEIT.
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