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Briefing paper

Towards a More Equal Indonesia: How the government can take action to close the gap between the richest and the rest

23/02/2017

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, Indonesian

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The gap between the richest and the rest in Indonesia has grown faster in the past two decades than in any other country in South-East Asia. The four richest men in Indonesia now have more wealth than the poorest 100 million people. Inequality is slowing down poverty reduction, dampening economic growth and threatening social cohesion. […]

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Case study

Community-Based Monitoring and Grievance Redressal in Schools in Delhi

10/12/2015

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam India is part of a global movement working to fight poverty, injustice and inequality. In India, it works in seven states. Oxfam India believes that right to education is important to close the gap between the ‘haves’ and the ‘havenots’. As a founding member of the Right to Education (RTE) Forum, it is working […]

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Case study

Oxfam in Action: Promoting multilingual education in Odisha’s Adivasi belt

24/09/2015

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam India is part of a global movement working to fight poverty, injustice and inequality. In India, it works in seven states. Oxfam India believes that the right to education (RTE) is vital to closing the gap between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’. As a founding member of the RTE Forum, it is working towards […]

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Briefing note

Right to Education Act: Claiming education for every child

12/03/2015

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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A conscious neglect of school education in the initial decades of independent India is termed by Dreze and Sen (2013) as a ‘home-grown folly’. Public services like education are key to nurture participatory growth as well as to ensure that growth improves peoples’ living conditions. However, India’s highly privatised and compartmentalised education system (largely unaccountable […]

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Case study

Scholarships and the Healthcare Human Resources Crisis: A case study of Soviet and Russian scholarships for medical students from Ghana

23/12/2014

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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Scholarships for study in the former Soviet Union were offered to students in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and across the developing world. Many of these scholarships were used to study medicine, and the health workforces of many sub-Saharan African countries now contain a significant number of Soviet-trained doctors – though they remain critically understaffed. […]

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Briefing paper

Making it Happen: Oxfam’s proposals for the post-2015 framework

17/06/2014

6 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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In 2015 the world has a historic opportunity to set ambitious goals to end poverty and protect the planet. As the era of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) comes to an end, two major injustices continue to undermine the efforts of millions of people to escape poverty and hunger: inequality and climate change. The post-2015 […]

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Briefing paper

Working for the Many: Public services fight inequality

03/04/2014

7 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish

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Free public services, such as health and education, are one of the strongest weapons in the fight against inequality. They benefit everyone in society, but the poorest most of all. They mitigate the impact of skewed income distribution, and redistribute revenue by putting ‘virtual income’ into the pockets of the poorest women and men. Across […]

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Briefing paper

Riding the Wave of Reform: Fast-tracking Myanmar’s future with good quality aid

21/01/2014

2 documents

46 pages long

Languages: English

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In 2011, following decades of isolation, Myanmar embarked on an unprecedented reform process, raising hopes for a new democracy. These reforms have been welcomed by the international community with rising levels of aid. If properly handled and spent, aid offers an opportunity to harness Myanmar’s economic potential and make it work for poor people – […]

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Briefing paper

Working for the Few: Political capture and economic inequality

20/01/2014

6 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Almost half of the world’s wealth is now owned by just one percent of the population, and seven out of ten people live in countries where economic inequality has increased in the last 30 years. The World Economic Forum has identified economic inequality as a major risk to human progress, impacting social stability within countries […]

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Research report

Missed Opportunities: The case for strengthening national and local partnership-based humanitarian responses

03/11/2013

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French

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This study is the first output of a research project commissioned by five UK-based international humanitarian non-governmental organisations (INGOs) – ActionAid, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Oxfam GB and Tearfund. The main purpose of the project was to look at the current and future potential of partnerships with national non-governmental organisations (NNGOs) in humanitarian response, based on […]

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