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Economist Thomas Piketty on the need for a wealth tax in SA

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Thomas Piketty, considered the most influential economist in the world, says a tax on the country’s wealthy would help shift inequality and poverty, which was not only persisting but worsening since the end of the apartheid era. For more News visit: http://www.sabc.co.za/news Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SABCNewsOnline?lang=en Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SABCNewsOnline

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Thomas Piketty, considered the most influential economist in the world, says a tax on the country’s wealthy would help shift inequality and poverty, which was not only persisting but worsening since the end of the apartheid era.



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Thomas Piketty
Thomas Piketty (7 May 1971) is a French economist who works on wealth and income inequality. He is a professor (directeur d'études) at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), associate chair at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial professor at the London School of Economics new International Inequalities Institute.

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