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Briefing paper

Asia’s Extreme Inequality Crisis: Building back fairer after COVID-19

26 Sep 2022

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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COVID-19 has exacerbated Asia’s crisis of extreme inequality. This is undermining growth and preventing poverty eradication. Asian governments have done almost nothing to combat this rise in inequality and are constrained in their policy choices as debt burdens grow and post-COVID austerity begins. A few Asian governments have done a lot to fight inequality during […]

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Briefing paper

Redefining Inclusive Growth in Asia: How APEC can achieve an economy that leaves no one behind

01 Nov 2017

4 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English

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In November 2017, leaders will gather in Vietnam for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. The last few decades have seen astonishing growth and poverty reduction across Asia, but inequality is on the rise and the benefits of growth are increasingly going to those at the top. This paper sets out how APEC leaders can […]

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Research report

New Actors, New Models, New Outcomes? African countries’ engagement with China and other development partners in achieving the SDGs and Agenda 2063

27 Jul 2017

2 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English

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Understanding how Africa can engage with global development partners to provide more effective support for implementation of the SDGs and Agenda 2063 is crucial to realizing the continent’s development aspirations. This report provides a detailed assessment of the key development platforms – the SDGs, Agenda 2063 and FOCAC. It examines how Africans can mobilize around […]

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Briefing paper

Owning the Outcomes: Time to make the World Bank Group’s financial intermediary investments more accountable

03 Oct 2016

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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Over the past six years, the International Finance Corporation has channelled over $50bn to the financial sector, and its long-term investments in financial intermediaries such as commercial banks and private equity funds have dramatically risen by 45 percent over that same period. However, the evidence continues to grow that this private sector arm of the […]

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Journal article

Feminist mobilisation for policy change on violence against women: insights from Asia

20 Jul 2016

13 pages long

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Feminist mobilisation for policy change on violence against women: insights from Asia

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This article explores how women’s movements in China, India, and Indonesia have mobilised to influence processes of legal reform on violence against women and girls (VAWG). Legal change is a complex and iterative process, in which both state and non-state actors negotiate and bargain over the content of law in the ‘policy space’, bringing different […]

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Case study

Lessons learned from supporting the development of a network of networks for advocacy in the Global South

31 May 2016

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam regards working with partners as central to its model of change. While Oxfam is an organization with a strong global and international presence, working within networks and with other civil society organizations brings significantly more depth, outreach and legitimacy to its influencing work. The ECSN BRICSAM (Empowering Civil Society Networks in an Unequal Multi-Polar […]

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Issue briefing

Underpaid and Undervalued: How inequality defines women’s work in Asia

31 May 2016

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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Rising economic inequality across Asia is threatening poverty reduction and slowing down the fight against gender inequality. Although the region has experienced economic growth, the bottom 70% have seen their income share fall while the share for the top 10% has increased rapidly. Low wages and a lack of rights at work, particularly for women, […]

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Briefing paper

Women and the 1%: How extreme economic inequality and gender inequality must be tackled together

11 Apr 2016

6 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Recent decades have seen a dramatic rise in extreme economic inequality. Those at the top of the income scale have received a disproportionate share of the gains of global growth. This risks further entrenching gender inequality and funnelling the gains from women’s labour to those already at the top. Too often women are in low […]

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Briefing note

Improving Global Governance through Engagement with Civil Society: The case of BRICS

31 Mar 2016

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper presents a set of recommendations to increase the effectiveness of global governance forums by incorporating the experience, views and expertise of civil society. These recommendations are based on a research study, commissioned by Oxfam GB in Russia, which documented and analysed the experience of the Civil BRICS Forum 2015 and the views of […]

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Briefing paper

Fuelling the Fire: How the UN Security Council’s Permanent Members are undermining their own commitments on Syria

11 Mar 2016

5 documents

36 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Italian, Spanish

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March 2016 marks five years of upheaval and conflict in Syria – conflict that has reduced lives to shadows and cities to rubble. The Syrian government and its allies, as well as armed opposition and extremist groups, bear the primary and direct responsibility for the horrific reality that Syria’s civilians face on this grim anniversary. […]

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