G20 Extraordinary Committee of Independent Experts on Global Inequality

This landmark report on inequality can help you to better understand the “inequality emergency.” Authored by the 2025 G20 Extraordinary Committee of Independent Experts on Global Inequality, led by Joseph E. Stiglitz, the report highlights how the world’s top 1% captured 41% of all new wealth between 2000 and 2024, while just 1% of new wealth went to the bottom 50%. It explains the scale of the inequality emergency and why inequality matters; explores the drivers of high levels of inequality; and provides a blueprint to reduce inequality. The report also calls for the creation of a permanent institutional mechanism at the global level to address inequality in income, wealth, and opportunities.

Related, the 2025 G20 summit declaration acknowledged deepening inequality and the disproportionate effects that disasters are having on vulnerable people, and that global inequality poses significant threats to global economic growth, development, and social and economic stability.