Talks towards creating a new international panel to address extreme wealth disparities, modelled on the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), opened in Geneva on Monday.
The founding committee of the new International Panel on Inequality (IPI), made up of country representatives and inequality experts including Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, was holding its first meeting at the UN's European headquarters.
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