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Taxing billionaires and redistributing wealth could save millions of lives amid global aid cuts

Wealth redistribution policies currently under discussion in international forums could avert between 6.6 million and 29.5 million deaths by 2030, according to a study published in The Lancet and led by ISGlobal in collaboration with other leading economic and health research institutions.

Taxing billionaires and redistributing wealth could save millions of lives amid global aid cuts
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Wealth redistribution policies currently under discussion in international forums could avert between 6.6 million and 29.5 million deaths by 2030, according to a study published in The Lancet and led by ISGlobal in collaboration with other leading economic and health research institutions.

Originally published at Phys.org

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