Adrien Fabre (CIRED)
Through an original survey on 11,000 respondents representative of ten high-income countries (U.S., Japan, Saudi Arabia, and seven European countries), I study the extent of support for global redistribution and climate policies, and their sensitivity to policy features such as the magnitude of the transfers or country coverage. Though not a salient concern, global inequality is seen as a big injustice. There is majority support for almost all global policies in almost all countries, including for policies that would redistribute 5% of the world income, or that would be costly to the respondents. Global inequality is a vote-determining issue for many people; a political program is more likely to be preferred if it addresses it. Support for international policies decreases only slightly when the country coverage shrinks. These results confirm previous findings and suggest that a broad set of countries could work together for sustainable development.