Inequality Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

Takers Not Makers: The unjust poverty and unearned wealth of colonialism

20/01/2025

9 documents

96 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Billionaire wealth has risen three times faster in 2024 than in 2023. Five trillionaires are now expected within a decade. Meanwhile, crises of economy, climate and conflict mean the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since 1990. Most billionaire wealth is taken, not earned- 60% comes from either inheritance, cronyism, corruption or […]

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Briefing paper

Rising to the Challenge: The case for permanent progressive policies to tackle Asia’s coronavirus and inequality crisis

12/01/2022

1 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

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Asia remains in the grip of a coronavirus crisis that is supercharging already high levels of inequality. While the richest and most privileged can protect their health and increase their wealth further, the pandemic is putting the lives and livelihoods of the region's poorest and most vulnerable people at risk. Women, poor and low-skilled workers, […]

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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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Case study

Widening the Tax Base of Low-Income Countries: Taxing high-net-worth individuals in Uganda

22/10/2020

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study offers a compelling story of how-long term influencing and political will by government helped widen Uganda’s tax base and raise vital additional finance for poverty-busting public spending on the social sector. It demonstrates that it is practically and politically feasible to increase government revenues by increasing the tax take from the richest individuals […]

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Briefing paper

The IMF and Lebanon: The long road ahead – An assessment of how Lebanon’s economy may be stabilized while battling a triple crisis and recovering from a deadly blast

15/10/2020

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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Lebanon is extremely unequal and has been rocked by massive protests in recent months. The country is facing a financial crisis and is in talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) about a potential bailout programme. Other IMF programmes in the region have focused on austerity and have driven increases in poverty and inequality. A […]

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Research report

Fighting Inequality in the time of COVID-19: The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2020

08/10/2020

13 documents

66 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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The coronavirus pandemic has swept across a world unprepared to fight it, because countries had failed to choose policies to fight inequality. Only one in six countries assessed for the CRI Index 2020 were spending enough on health, only a third of the global workforce had adequate social protection, and in more than 100 countries at […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Influencing for Impact Guide: How to deliver effective influencing strategies

15/09/2020

3 documents

81 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Oxfam’s Influencing for Impact Guide is designed for civil society organizations, Oxfam teams and partners, activists and campaigners. It aims to support them to develop and deliver effective influencing, advocacy and campaigning strategies that tackle the structural causes of poverty, inequality and environmental crisis: strategies with impact to help shift unequal and unjust power relations, […]

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Briefing paper

Power, Profits and the Pandemic: From corporate extraction for the few to an economy that works for all

10/09/2020

7 documents

61 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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The worsening inequality crisis triggered by COVID-19 is fuelled by an economic model that has allowed some of the world’s largest corporations to funnel billions of dollars in profits to shareholders giving yet another windfall to the world’s top billionaires, a small group of mostly white men. At the same time, it has left low […]

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Briefing note

For a Decade of Hope Not Austerity in the Middle East and North Africa: Towards a fair and inclusive recovery to fight inequality

27/08/2020

2 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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Even before the coronavirus crisis struck, people in the Middle East and North Africa were protesting against the injustice and inequality wrought by a decade of austerity. The pandemic and the lockdown measures taken by governments have paralysed economies and threaten to tip millions of people into poverty, with women, refugees, migrant workers and those […]

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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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