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Media briefing

Inequality and the End of Extreme Poverty

21/09/2015

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Fifteen years after the launch of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and a decade after G7 leaders gathered in Gleneagles to promise to ‘make poverty history’, the end of extreme poverty is within reach. Later this week at a special session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, world leaders will agree the […]

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Research report

Somali Solutions: Creating conditions for a gender-just peace

04/08/2015

3 documents

28 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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This report looks at Somali women’s experiences with conflict, peace, violence, insecurity and state rebuilding. It uses an approach geared towards gender-just peace-building to understand the ways in which Somali women have fulfilled their role as agents of change, while navigating the challenges posed by women’s exclusion from many forms of public life (government, civil […]

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Journal article

Introduction: Gender and Inequalities

31/07/2015

4 pages long

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website.

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Journal article

Gender, poverty, and inequality: a brief history of feminist contributions in the field of international development

31/07/2015

16 pages long

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Gender, poverty, and inequality: a brief history of feminist contributions in the field of international development

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This paper provides a brief history of feminist contributions to the analysis of gender, poverty, and inequality in the field of international development. It draws out the continuous threads running through these contributions over the years, as the focus has moved from micro-level analysis to a concern with macro-level forces. It concludes with a brief […]

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Journal article

The Individual Deprivation Measure: measuring poverty as if gender and inequality matter

31/07/2015

17 pages long

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The Individual Deprivation Measure: measuring poverty as if gender and inequality matter

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As inequality deepens globally and within countries it is vital that we know how poverty shapes, constrains, and often destroys the lives of women and men. We know from decades of research that poverty is experienced differently by women and men, yet existing mainstream measures of poverty have been blind to gender. This article focuses […]

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Journal article

‘Leave no one behind’ and the challenge of intersectionality: Christian Aid’s experience of working with single and Dalit women in India

31/07/2015

16 pages long

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‘Leave no one behind’ and the challenge of intersectionality: Christian Aid’s experience of working with single and Dalit women in India

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The principle of ‘leaving no one behind’ is strongly emerging as a defining aspect of the new development framework under negotiation in 2015. This stems from an acknowledgement of the failure of the Millennium Development Goals in securing benefits for the most marginalised groups, those suffering from economic deprivation and discrimination as a result of […]

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Research report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care: Evidence for influencing

20/07/2015

1 documents

116 pages long

Languages: English

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Development actors increasingly identify care responsibilities as a factor restricting women’s empowerment outcomes, yet there is limited evidence on determinants of long hours or gender inequality in care work. To gain a clearer understanding of care work and pathways of change to promote more equitable care provision, Oxfam conducted a Household Care Survey in communities […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Redistributing Care Work for Gender Equality and Justice: A training curriculum

15/06/2015

1 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English

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People contribute to the economy through their work in many different ways. Women and men contribute to the productive economy by producing goods and services that people use every day. It is this work that is counted and measured by governments. Yet the work of social reproduction ‘ which refers to the activities needed to […]

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Research report

Financing the Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons from government spending on the MDGs

11/06/2015

1 documents

68 pages long

Languages: English

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Spending by governments is falling short of what is needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by one-third – and beyond 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require at least $1.5 trillion extra each year. Based on lessons from tracking country budgets, this report looks at how the SDGs should be financed and […]

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Issue briefing

Towards a Fair and Just Fiscal Policy in Pakistan

05/06/2015

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Pakistan does not currently mobilize sufficient tax revenue to finance essential public services, including healthcare and education, on which the poor rely the most. Consequently, these services remain inadequate, hampering efforts to reduce poverty and address extreme inequalities. Furthermore, the current tax system in Pakistan is seen by many as unfair and inequitable. Two-thirds of […]

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