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Journal article

Thirty years on: macroeconomic trajectory and the challenge of a feminist fiscal policy for Latin America

16/03/2026

20 pages long

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Thirty years on: macroeconomic trajectory and the challenge of a feminist fiscal policy for Latin America

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This article analyses the evolution of the context and fiscal policies in Latin America 30 years after the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BDPfA). The extractive economic growth model did not generate enough quality jobs to guarantee women’s economic autonomy throughout their life cycle, while the demographic transition has driven ageing, […]

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Discussion paper

Crisis y Captura: El descontento social en tiempos de pandemia en América Latina y el Caribe

01/07/2021

2 documents

25 pages long

Languages: Spanish

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Este documento esboza una propuesta de agendas de trabajo para promover el debate sobre cómo reconfigurar el pacto social por vías institucionales en América Latina y el Caribe, fortaleciendo así los sistemas democráticos de la región y hacer frente a privilegios. Estas cuestiones son esenciales en el contexto actual de pandemia y de crisis políticas. […]

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Research report

Funding the Frontline: How an Oxfam Emergency Response Fund facilitated local humanitarian action

09/04/2021

1 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English

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From 2014 to 2020 Oxfam embedded an Emergency Response Fund (ERF) in its multiyear disaster risk reduction programs in Asia-Pacific and Central America. The Oxfam ERF was designed as a flexible funding mechanism to prioritize small-scale, under-the-radar, and forgotten emergencies and help local actors respond to and mitigate the impacts of disasters in their communities. […]

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Case study

Fiscal Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean: Case studies

03/11/2020

6 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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These case studies are part of Oxfam’s Fiscal Justice Track Record programme, and include case studies from Bolivia, Peru, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic. The series provides in-depth updates on Oxfam and partners’ fiscal justice and inequality work. Oxfam’s F.A.I.R.-EiU programme aims to ensure that citizens are empowered to redress inequality of power and […]

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Briefing paper

¿Quién paga la cuenta? Gravar la riqueza para enfrentar la crisis de la COVID-19 en América Latina y el Caribe

27/07/2020

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Las previsiones de retroceso económico y social en América Latina y el Caribe son alarmantes. La COVID-19 golpea con fuerza la región marcada que tendrá que afrontar una contracción del 9,4%, una de las más severas en todo el planeta. La desigualdad, la informalidad y la insuficiente dotación sanitaria lastran las posibilidades de hacer frente […]

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Briefing paper

Desterrados: Tierra, poder y desigualdad en America Latina

30/11/2016

5 documents

100 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Para combatir la desigualdad en America Latina es necesario abordar la extrema concentracion en el acceso y control de la tierra y en el reparto de los beneficios de su explotacion. Nuevos datos explican por que America Latina es la region del mundo mas desigual en el reparto de la tierra. La alta dependencia del […]

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Briefing paper

I Ask the World to Empathize: Voices of people on the move

15/09/2016

4 documents

24 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Worldwide, more than 65 million people have fled conflict, violence and persecution. Millions more are driven from their homes by disasters, drought and inequality. This paper tells the stories of some of those millions of people. Many have relied on local people sharing their scarce resources. In contrast, too many governments have failed to share […]

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Media briefing

Different Conflict, Same Crisis

15/09/2016

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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The vast majority of refugees and asylum seekers are hosted by poorer countries and almost four million have been welcomed by countries which themselves have experienced armed violence or are in conflict. With more people fleeing violence and persecution now than at any time since records began, governments must make firm commitments at two major […]

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Journal article

High-risk feminism in El Salvador: women’s mobilisation in violent times

20/07/2016

14 pages long

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High-risk feminism in El Salvador: women’s mobilisation in violent times

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Violence against women in El Salvador – a country made fragile by a vicious Civil War and the subsequent burgeoning of murderous youth gangs – has been described as lying on the knife’s edge between public and private (Hume 2009). Women’s experiences of violence are often invalidated by wider society for violating a normalised culture […]

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Issue briefing

What Will Become of Us? Voices from around the world on drought and El Nino

13/04/2016

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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About 60 million people across Southern Africa and the Horn, Central America, and the Pacific face worsening hunger and poverty due to droughts and crop failures in 2014-15 that have been exacerbated by the El Nino weather system in 2015-16. This number is likely to rise. The international response is working, but much more is […]

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