Healthcare Archives - Page 2 of 3 - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

Reward Work, Not Wealth: To end the inequality crisis, we must build an economy for ordinary working people, not the rich and powerful.

22/01/2018

14 documents

70 pages long

Languages: Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, French, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese

Keywords

Overview

Last year saw the biggest increase in billionaires in history, one more every two days. This huge increase could have ended global extreme poverty seven times over. 82% of all wealth created in the last year went to the top 1%, and nothing went to the bottom 50%. Dangerous, poorly paid work for the many […]

View resource

Briefing note

Unpaid Care – Why and How to Invest: Policy briefing for national governments

12/01/2018

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Investments which support households to better meet their unpaid care responsibilities – such as childcare, food preparation and laundry – can yield substantial returns in terms of macro-economic growth, job creation and other key government priorities. This briefing looks at selected evidence and examples and argues that governments should: include commitments to support households’ unpaid […]

View resource

Briefing paper

Taxing for Shared Prosperity: Policy options for the Asia-Pacific region

08/12/2017

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Asia-Pacific region was a model for ‘growing with equity’ in the 1970s and 1980s. Rapid economic growth was achieved without major increases in inequality. However an economic take-off and market-oriented reforms in recent years, despite helping hundreds of millions to be lifted out of extreme poverty, has been accompanied by growing income and wealth […]

View resource

Briefing paper

Taxing for a More Equal Kenya: A five-point action plan to tackle inequality

06/12/2017

1 documents

78 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Extreme inequality is out of control in Kenya. Less than 0.1% of the population (8,300 people) own more wealth than the bottom 99.9% (more than 44 million people). Tackling inequality could help to lift millions out of poverty, secure sustainable economic growth and bring the country together. Inequality is not inevitable and the government can […]

View resource

Briefing paper

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

01/11/2017

4 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

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 […]

View resource

Issue briefing

High-Priced Medicines and Lack of Needs-Driven Innovation: A global crisis that fuels inequality

22/09/2017

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

New opportunities and challenges one year after the landmark report of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines On 14 September 14 2016, the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines publicly released its final report entitled ‘Promoting innovation and access to health technologies’. One year after the release of the landmark […]

View resource

Discussion paper

Macroeconomic Policy and Women’s Economic Empowerment

01/09/2017

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

At its core, the economic empowerment of women – to succeed and advance economically and to make and act on economic decisions – depends on the quantity and quality of paid employment, the provision or absence of public services, the amount of unpaid care work borne by women, as well as coverage or lack thereof […]

View resource

Annual report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care): Overview 2017

30/08/2017

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s WE-Care initiative aims to make unpaid care work visible as critical to social and economic development, while addressing heavy and unequal care work as a driver of poverty and gender inequality. This 2017 overview describes how WE-Care incorporates a range of stakeholders, ensuring that community groups, governments, development practitioners and the private sector work […]

View resource

Research report

The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index: A new global ranking of governments based on what they are doing to tackle the gap between rich and poor

17/07/2017

13 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

In 2015, the leaders of 193 governments promised to reduce inequality as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Without reducing inequality, meeting the SDG to eliminate poverty will be impossible. Now Development Finance International and Oxfam have produced the first index to measure the commitment of governments to reducing the gap between the rich […]

View resource

Briefing paper

Starting with People: A human economy approach to inclusive growth in Africa

02/05/2017

4 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese

Keywords

Overview

High levels of inequality across Africa have prevented much of the benefits of recent growth from reaching the continent’s poorest people. To combat inequality in Africa, political and business leaders have to shape a profoundly different type of economy. It must start with the needs of Africa’s women and young people for good quality sustainable […]

View resource

Healthcare

Filter Resources by