Human economy Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Discussion paper

Radical Pathways Beyond GDP: Why and how we need to pursue feminist and decolonial alternatives urgently

03/08/2023

6 documents

71 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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There is growing consensus among policymakers, institutions and movements that GDP is not fit for purpose as the pre-eminent economic metric. Alternatives are urgently needed to facilitate the transition to a new economic model that supports a radically more equal, kinder, greener and feminist world in the present, while offering redress for historical damage and […]

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Briefing paper

Time to Care: Unpaid and underpaid care work and the global inequality crisis

20/01/2020

11 documents

64 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Korean, Spanish

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Economic inequality is out of control. In 2019, the world’s billionaires, only 2,153 people, had more wealth than 4.6 billion people. This great divide is based on a flawed and sexist economic system that values the wealth of the privileged few, mostly men, more than the billions of hours of the most essential work – […]

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Discussion paper

Fighting Inequality to Beat Poverty: The role of UK international development

04/06/2019

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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UK international development actors – from government to private sector and NGOs – can play a key role in fighting extreme economic inequality to beat poverty in developing countries. This paper shares key principles, policies and programmes that have emerged from Oxfam’s work with partners around the world in recent years, so as to encourage […]

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Briefing paper

Public Good or Private Wealth? Universal health, education and other public services reduce the gap between rich and poor, and between women and men. Fairer taxation of the wealthiest can help pay for them.

21/01/2019

13 documents

40 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Vietnamese

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Our economy is broken, with hundreds of millions of people living in extreme poverty while huge rewards go to those at the very top. The number of billionaires has doubled since the financial crisis and their fortunes grow by $2.5bn a day, yet the super-rich and corporations are paying lower rates of tax than they […]

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Research report

Exploring the Need for Gender-Equitable Fiscal Policies for a Human Economy: Evidence from Uganda and Zimbabwe

08/03/2018

2 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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Fiscal policy can be a powerful tool for governments to help achieve a ‘human economy’, if these policies are designed to address gender inequalities and the gender biases in current macroeconomic thinking. This report uses the case of one element of fiscal policy – public spending – to demonstrate how such policy design could help […]

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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

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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 […]

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Discussion paper

Oxfam’s Future of Business Initiative: Promoting equitable businesses and fourth sector development

18/09/2017

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Since the turn of the century, the poorest half of the world’s population has received just 1% of the total increase in global wealth. Meanwhile, half the new wealth has gone to the richest 1%. At present, mainstream business is driving, rather than reversing, this disturbing trend. To help reverse this trend, we need rapid […]

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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

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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 […]

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Briefing paper

An Economy for the 99%: It’s time to build a human economy that benefits everyone, not just the privileged few

16/01/2017

11 documents

48 pages long

Languages: Chinese, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

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New estimates show that just eight men own the same wealth as the poorest half of the world. As growth benefits the richest, the rest of society – especially the poorest – suffers. The very design of our economies and the principles of our economics have taken us to this extreme, unsustainable and unjust point. […]

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