Super-rich call for higher taxes on wealthy to pay for Covid-19 recovery

Exclusive: Group of 83 wealthy individuals demands ‘immediate, substantial and permanent’ higher taxes ‘on people like us’

Covid-19 has revealed a pre-existing pandemic of poverty that benefits the rich

Governments must take seriously the human right to an adequate standard of living – or the poverty pandemic will long outlive Covid-19

Protecting 30% of planet could bolster economy, study says

Scientists claim widespread conservation can bring rewards if right policies are followed

Summer statement: the UK’s Covid-19 economic crisis in five key charts

Ahead of Rishi Sunak’s statement we look at public finances, economic growth, jobs, retail and the housing market

‘We squandered a decade’: world losing fight against poverty, says UN academic

Goal to eradicate poverty by 2030 ‘completely off track’, says outgoing special rapporteur, with Covid-19 likely to impoverish millions more

Fifteen years after the G8 summit, it’s the UK that’s in dire need of aid

Like Brown in 2005, Sunak plans to help the vulnerable – but the similarities end there

Global economy will take $12tn hit from coronavirus, says IMF

World Economic Outlook says UK economy is on course to shrink by 10.2% in 2020

White House scrambles to deny Trump trade adviser’s claim that China deal is ‘over’

Peter Navarro blames coronavirus for end of agreement, but is swiftly contradicted by Donald Trump, who says it is ‘fully intact’

Angela Merkel fears economic crisis is being underestimated in EU

Leaders clash over coronavirus recovery funds, with Germany pushing for swift resolution

Central banks have pumped money into the economy, but it’s no substitute for democracy

To build a fairer, greener society, mony must be made to serve the people, not the other way around, says academic Quinn Slobodian

Johnson handing the Foreign Office control of the aid budget signals a change of priorities

With FCO spending focused on middle-income trading partners, the world’s poorest countries may end up with less

BP expects to take $17.5bn hit due to coronavirus writedown

Oil company says it may be forced to leave some of its fossil fuel discoveries in the ground

The Guardian view on the global crisis: where is the rescue and recovery plan?

Editorial: The vacuum left by the G20 will leave the world’s poorest nations battered by Covid-19 and with a fraction of the wealth required to revive themselves

Stock markets fall heavily as another 1.5m Americans claim benefits amid Covid-19 crisis – as it happened

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as gloomy central bank forecasts make investors wary

Anger at huge shareholder payout as US chain Kohl’s cancels $150m in orders

Retailer paid $109m in dividends just weeks after cancelling clothing orders, leaving suppliers in Bangladesh and Korea facing financial crisis