International trade

This week, a coalition of NGOs have launched a campaign for a new law in the UK that could make sure that corporations pay their fair share of taxes to public coffers. Dubbed the ‘Tax Dodging Bill’, the proposed law could generate at least £3.6 billion a year for the UK treasury (equivalent to £600 for every household below the poverty line), and billions more for developing countries.​

At this year’s gathering of the world’s richest and most powerful at Davos, the World Economic Forum founder has urged delegates that the motto for their 2015 meeting should be ‘sharing and caring’.

世界の最富裕者や権力者が集まる今年のダボス会議で、世界経済フォーラムの創設者は参加者に対し、2015年の会合のモットーは「分かち合いと思いやり」であるべきだと訴えました。

Twitter feeds and newspaper headlines were again dominated this morning by new statistics on growing wealth inequality, as released by Oxfam ahead of this week’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.​

２１世紀の画期的なチャレンジに取り組むために、私たちはキリストの簡素なメッセージをかつてないほど心に留め、そして最終的には、世界の富と資源を万人の間でより公平に分かち合わねばならないでしょう。