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Briefing paper

An Economy For the 1%: How privilege and power in the economy drive extreme inequality and how this can be stopped

18/01/2016

10 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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The global inequality crisis is reaching new extremes. The richest 1% now have more wealth than the rest of the world combined. Power and privilege is being used to skew the economic system to increase the gap between the richest and the rest. A global network of tax havens further enables the richest individuals to […]

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Research report

Information Flows Faster than Water: How livelihoods were saved in Pakistan’s 2010 floods

30/05/2014

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam’s Community-based Disaster Risk Management and Livelihoods (CBDRML) Programme sought to reduce the loss of life and livelihoods and promote resilience in disaster-prone communities in Pakistan. When in 2010 the country suffered the worst floods in its history, the CBDRML Programme was already in place, operated by partner organizations in four districts. In December 2011 […]

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Briefing paper

Working for the Few: Political capture and economic inequality

20/01/2014

6 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Almost half of the world’s wealth is now owned by just one percent of the population, and seven out of ten people live in countries where economic inequality has increased in the last 30 years. The World Economic Forum has identified economic inequality as a major risk to human progress, impacting social stability within countries […]

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Media briefing

Poor Governance, Good Business: How land investors target countries with weak governance

07/02/2013

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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Investors are buying up vast tracks of land across the developing world in a modern day ‘land rush’. New analysis by Oxfam explores where land is changing hands and why. It finds that investors appear to be targeting countries with weak governance in order to secure land quickly and cheaply – putting the homes and […]

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Briefing note

Africa is Wide Awake But Still Hungry

26/12/2012

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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One of the most remarkable turn-arounds in development occurred in the last decade in many of the countries south of the Sahara. Economies have been growing even in the face of economic and financial instability elsewhere in the world; poverty has fallen and child mortality has dropped considerably, among the most visible indicators of progress. […]

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An Economy For the 1%: How privilege and power in the economy drive extreme inequality and how this can be stopped

Information Flows Faster than Water: How livelihoods were saved in Pakistan’s 2010 floods

Working for the Few: Political capture and economic inequality

Poor Governance, Good Business: How land investors target countries with weak governance

Africa is Wide Awake But Still Hungry