Taxation Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

The Middle East and North Africa Gap: Prosperity for the rich, austerity for the rest

05/10/2023

4 documents

46 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French

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This briefing paper examines growing inequality in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, focusing on Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and the cost of living crisis. It examines the lack of adequate and just taxation systems across the region, particularly wealth taxes. This limits governments’ fiscal […]

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Research report

Does Aid to Domestic Revenue Mobilization Support Tax Fairness? A synthesis of Oxfam research

17/03/2023

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Between 2017 and 2022, Oxfam examined aid to DRM from multiple donors provided to multiple low- and middle-income countries. This synthesis report seeks to draw lessons across these studies. The key issues examined include tradeoffs between efficiency and effectiveness in generating revenues on the one hand, and equity on the other; whether donors support direct […]

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Briefing paper

Survival of the Richest: How we must tax the super-rich now to fight inequality

16/01/2023

9 documents

57 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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We are living through an unprecedented moment of multiple crises. Tens of millions more people are facing hunger. Hundreds of millions more face impossible rises in the cost of basic goods or heating their homes. Poverty has increased for the first time in 25 years. At the same time, these multiple crises all have winners. […]

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Research report

The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2022

11/10/2022

12 documents

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish

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The 2022 Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) Index is the first detailed analysis published looking at governments’ policies and actions to fight inequality during the first two years of the pandemic. This fourth edition of the CRI Index reviews the spending, tax and labour policies and actions of 161 governments during 2020–2022. COVID-19 has increased […]

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Briefing paper

Asia’s Extreme Inequality Crisis: Building back fairer after COVID-19

26/09/2022

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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COVID-19 has exacerbated Asia’s crisis of extreme inequality. This is undermining growth and preventing poverty eradication. Asian governments have done almost nothing to combat this rise in inequality and are constrained in their policy choices as debt burdens grow and post-COVID austerity begins. A few Asian governments have done a lot to fight inequality during […]

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Research report

The Crisis of Extreme Inequality in SADC: Fighting austerity and the pandemic

10/05/2022

8 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portugese, Swahili

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The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the extreme inequality in Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries, and pushed millions into poverty. The economic crisis continues due to the obscene global vaccine inequality. As of end March 2022, a dismal 14% of SADC citizens had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, compared with 65.5% in the United States […]

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Research report

The Inequality Crisis in East Africa: Fighting austerity and the pandemic

09/02/2022

2 documents

47 pages long

Languages: English

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The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed millions into poverty in East Africa, and worsened inequality. The economic crisis continues, due to the obscene global vaccine inequality, which means that only 4% of East African citizens had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, compared with 71% in high-income countries by mid-January2022. Many East African governments were already hamstrung by high […]

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Research report

The West Africa Inequality Crisis: Fighting austerity and the pandemic

14/10/2021

6 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English, French

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The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and worsened the depth of inequality in West Africa. It has pushed millions into poverty. There is no end in sight due to the obscene global vaccine inequality, which means that less than 4% of West Africans had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as at September 2021, compared with 52% […]

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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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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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