Document summary
What’s it all about?
From the Occupy movement to Piketty’s bestseller, Capital, inequality has become a pervasive economic theme since the financial crisis. This report, launches the Kepler Cheuvreux Inequality Footprint to highlight the risks to business and their influence on factors of socio-economic inequality. Its focus covers not just wealth inequality but also the material impacts from corporate misconduct, the facilitation of social mobility, sustainable supply chains, underserved product areas and emissions reduction which affect both shareholder value and levels of social and income disparity significantly. The cross-sector framework includes the consumer, banking, capital goods, telco, extractives and pharma sectors.