As the Prime Minister urges global co-operation at the G7 summit, Boris Johnson faces condemnation from charities and some of his own MPs for breaking a manifesto commitment to spend 0.7% of national income on foreign aid.
Rishi Sunak has hailed what he called an "historic agreement" to reform the global tax system - creating a worldwide base rate of corporation tax of at least 15%.
During a year of economic hardship for many, some have in fact taken advantage of the pandemic and got even richer.
The world’s billionaires have grown their fortunes to a record high of $10.2 trillion during the pandemic.
Our economics correspondent Helia Ebrahimi has been looking at the reasons why the super-rich have come out on top and what this tells us about how our economy works.
Sources: CNN, Sky News, BBC, Fox News
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