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Guidelines and toolkits

Inequality Toolkit: A guide to influencing for inequality reduction

11/08/2026

2 documents

72 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Today the fight against inequality is more urgent than ever before. This updated toolkit aims to equip Oxfam staff and allies with the skills necessary to scale up their efforts to tackle inequality at the national level. It enables them to analyze and make demands regarding national inequality levels and how we must see concrete […]

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Research report

The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2024

21/10/2024

7 documents

78 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Now in its fifth edition, the Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index (CRI) assesses the commitment of 164 countries and regions to fighting inequality. The CRI 2024 offers powerful new evidence on whether governments are acting to reduce inequality through policies on public services, fair taxation and labour rights. It reveals negative trends in the vast […]

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Research report

The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2022

11/10/2022

12 documents

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish

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The 2022 Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) Index is the first detailed analysis published looking at governments’ policies and actions to fight inequality during the first two years of the pandemic. This fourth edition of the CRI Index reviews the spending, tax and labour policies and actions of 161 governments during 2020–2022. COVID-19 has increased […]

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Research report

The West Africa Inequality Crisis: Fighting austerity and the pandemic

14/10/2021

6 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English, French

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The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and worsened the depth of inequality in West Africa. It has pushed millions into poverty. There is no end in sight due to the obscene global vaccine inequality, which means that less than 4% of West Africans had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as at September 2021, compared with 52% […]

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Research report

Fighting Inequality in the time of COVID-19: The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2020

08/10/2020

13 documents

66 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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The coronavirus pandemic has swept across a world unprepared to fight it, because countries had failed to choose policies to fight inequality. Only one in six countries assessed for the CRI Index 2020 were spending enough on health, only a third of the global workforce had adequate social protection, and in more than 100 countries at […]

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Briefing paper

The Power of Education to Fight Inequality: How increasing educational equality and quality is crucial to fighting economic and gender inequality

17/09/2019

5 documents

76 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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A good-quality public education is liberating for individuals. It can also be an equalizer within society. This report shows the unparalleled power of public education to tackle growing inequality and bring us closer together. To achieve this, education must be both of good quality and equitable; it should be free, universal, adequately funded, with well-supported […]

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Briefing paper

Building a More Equal Ghana: A 5-point action plan to close the gap between the rich and the rest

19/09/2018

1 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam estimates that just one of the richest men in Ghana earns from his wealth more in a month than one of the poorest women could earn in 1,000 years. Inequality is slowing down poverty reduction, hampering economic growth and threatening social cohesion. Nearly 300,000 more men, women and children in Ghana could have been […]

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Research report

Financing the Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons from government spending on the MDGs

11/06/2015

1 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English

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Spending by governments is falling short of what is needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by one-third – and beyond 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require at least $1.5 trillion extra each year. Based on lessons from tracking country budgets, this report looks at how the SDGs should be financed and […]

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Briefing note

Starting on the Road to Recovery: Saving lives and rebuilding livelihoods after the Pakistan earthquake

27/01/2006

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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On 8 October 2005, an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale ripped through Northern Pakistan, leaving 80,000 people dead and affecting 3 million more. The crisis is far from over: survivors of the earthquake still face dangers and difficulties as the worst of Pakistan’s winter weather has now settled in. Many people are huddled […]

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