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Research report

Building a More Equal Scotland: Designing Scotland’s Poverty and Inequality Commission

27/04/2017

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48 pages long

Languages: English

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In 2015 Oxfam Scotland called for the creation of an Inequality Commission, building on Scotland’s politicians from across all parties stating their support to tackle economic inequality. The Scottish government has committed to establishing a Poverty and Inequality Commission in 2017–18, but its design will be critical. This report, produced in collaboration with the Fraser […]

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Decent Work for Scotland’s Low-Paid Workers: A job to be done

07/09/2016

2 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English

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This report presents findings from a unique research project aimed at establishing what low-paid workers in Scotland value as important when it comes to ‘decent work’. While recognizing variations for specific groups, the research has identified remarkable consistency in respondents’ priorities for decent work. There is a significant job to be done to improve the […]

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What Makes For Decent Work? A study with low-paid workers in Scotland

09/03/2016

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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The experience of work and its security and rewards have changed significantly in recent decades. Increasingly, large numbers of people experience work which is insecure and which is paid at levels which do not allow families to live above the poverty line. In Scotland, around half of the working age adults experiencing poverty live in […]

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The Scottish Doughnut: A safe and just operating space for Scotland

25/07/2014

2 documents

88 pages long

Languages: English

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The world faces twin challenges: delivering a decent standard of living for everyone, whilst living within our environmental limits. These two interwoven concerns are depicted by Oxfam’s Doughnut Model. It allows people to visualise a space between planetary boundaries (the outer edge of the Doughnut) and a social floor (the inner edge), where it is […]

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Briefing paper

Our Economy: Towards a new prosperity

20/06/2013

1 documents

72 pages long

Languages: English

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For too many Scots, the existing economic model is failing. Far from improving their lives, it traps them in a cycle of economic hardship. Yet it is possible to overcome poverty, both in Scotland and across the UK – many of the solutions already exist, hidden within the very communities hit hardest by an economic […]

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Building a More Equal Scotland: Designing Scotland’s Poverty and Inequality Commission

Decent Work for Scotland’s Low-Paid Workers: A job to be done

What Makes For Decent Work? A study with low-paid workers in Scotland

The Scottish Doughnut: A safe and just operating space for Scotland

Our Economy: Towards a new prosperity