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Promoting Active Citizenship: What have we learned from 10 case studies of Oxfam’s work?

16/01/2015

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper pulls together insights and lessons from 10 case studies of Oxfam’s work in promoting active citizenship. The case studies, written over the course of 2013/14, employ a ‘theory of change approach’ to explore how change happens in different contexts. This summary also briefly reflects on the challenges to using that approach. The case […]

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Discussion paper

What Can Governments Do To Empower Poor People?

18/11/2013

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46 pages long

Languages: English

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Whether guaranteeing access to justice, promoting norms of equality and respect, ensuring access to quality essential services, or supporting citizens’ organization and voice, governments can play an important role in the empowerment of poor and excluded groups and individuals. Reviewing dozens of case studies, along with the latest conceptual work on empowerment, this paper shows that […]

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Discussion paper

How Can a Post-2015 Agreement Drive Real Change? Revised Edition: The political economy of global commitments

21/11/2012

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22 pages long

Languages: English

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What are the lessons of the Millennium Development Goals process to date? What has been their impact on aid and national government decision making? This paper seeks to inform the post-2015 debate by examining these questions. It argues that leverage over national governments and civil society involvement will increasingly eclipse leverage on aid as the […]

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Book

From Poverty to Power, 2nd Edition: How active citizens and effective states can change the world

23/10/2012

14 documents

488 pages long

Languages: English

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Seismic events have convulsed global markets since 2008, when From Poverty to Power was first published. World news has been full of stories reflecting a profound sense of uncertainty about global futures. In response, this new edition of From Poverty to Power has been fully revised and now includes an in-depth analysis of the human […]

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Briefing note

A Just and Global Green New Deal

12/03/2010

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5 pages long

Languages: English

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Our global responses to the recession and climate change are inextricably linked. Political and policy decisions in the next ten months on the recession and on climate change will define whether our planet and its people are heading for a brighter future of prosperity and climate security, or a future of inequality, poverty, conflict, and […]

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Discussion paper

A Copper-Bottomed Crisis? The impact of the global economic meltdown on Zambia

22/12/2009

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12 pages long

Languages: English

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The global economic crisis is having a serious impact on Zambia. In international trade, Zambia is a one-product economy. Copper accounts for some 70% of its exports, and prices have collapsed. If they stay at their current level, exports will halve in 2009. The most immediate social impact has been the loss of some 5,000 […]

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Briefing note

What Happened at the G20? Initial analysis of the London summit

03/04/2009

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

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Financial crisis

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G20 leaders met for the second time in London on 2 April, as the global economic crisis began to crash across the borders of poor countries with ever-greater severity. Oxfam’s research shows rising human impacts in the shape of job losses, falling remittances to the families of migrant workers and a particularly severe impact on […]

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Book

The Urgency of Now: A small book about the madness of inequality and poverty: how they’re wrecking people’s lives and why doing something about them will make things better for us all

23/06/2008

2 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Debt

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The urgency of now is essential reading for development, international politics, economics, and business students, activists and campaigners, and anyone interested in globalisation or development issues. In fact it’s for anyone with a questioning mind. The urgency of now accompanies Oxfam’s publication From Poverty to Power.

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Book

From Poverty to Power: How active citizens and effective states can change the world

23/06/2008

2 documents

540 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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The twenty-first century will be defined by the fight against the scourges of poverty, inequality, and the threat of environmental collapse as the fight against slavery or for universal suffrage defined earlier eras. From Poverty to Power argues that it requires a radical redistribution of power, opportunities, and assets to break the cycle of poverty […]

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Briefing paper

Blood on the Floor: How the rich countries have squeezed development out of the WTO Doha negotiations

07/12/2005

2 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Four years on, the Doha Round looks increasingly unlikely to deliver on its promises to the world’s poor. Rich countries have sidelined development concerns and insisted on, among other conditions, the ‘blood on the floor’ rule, i.e. obtaining economically painful concessions from all countries, including poor ones. In agriculture, trade rules look set to remain […]

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