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Briefing paper

Education Charges: A tax on human development

01/10/2001

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Education financing

Overview

New research illustrates how education charges trap children in a cycle of illiteracy and poverty. Governments and international organizations must act immediately on their commitments to deliver free basic education for all.

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Briefing paper

Causing Hunger: An overview of the food crisis in Africa

24/07/2006

3 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

For people to be hungry in Africa in the 21st century is neither inevitable nor morally acceptable. The world’s emergency response requires an overhaul so that it delivers prompt, equitable, and effective assistance to people suffering from lack of food. More fundamentally, governments need to tackle the root causes of hunger, which include poverty, agricultural […]

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Briefing paper

All Costs, No Benefits: How TRIPS plus intellectual property rules in the US-Jordan FTA affect access to medicines

21/03/2007

4 documents

37 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Overview

The USA continues to impose TRIPS-plus rules on developing countries, thus preventing poor people from accessing inexpensive, generic medicines. Jordan was required under the terms of its WTO accession package and its free trade agreement (FTA) with the USA to introduce TRIPS-plus rules. Medicine prices have increased drastically, and TRIPS-plus rules were partly responsible for […]

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Briefing paper

Growth With Equity is Good for the Poor

27/06/2000

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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Finance

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Three years ago the President of the World Bank committed his institution to overcoming what he described as “the tragedy of exclusion.” He has attempted to shift the focus away from ‘trickle down’ economics and towards growth with equity, or pro-poor growth. Today, his vision is under increasing attack not least from within the World […]

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Briefing note

Everything But Arms and Sugar

14/12/2000

1 documents

Languages: English

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Oxfam welcomes the UK Government’s support for the EC’s proposal to improve access to the EU market for all products, except armaments, exported from the world’s 48 poorest countries, dubbed the ‘Everything But Arms’ (EBA) proposal. We dispute the claims of the powerful lobby against the proposal to include sugar, launched by the National Farmers’ […]

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Briefing paper

Getting Women into Local Strategic Partnerships: Knowing your community, improving public services

18/12/2009

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Women in the UK are poorer than men: women working part-time earn nearly 40 per cent less than men, while the incomes of female pensioners are 40 per cent lower than those of male pensioners. Research commissioned by Oxfam in 2007 revealed that on Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPS), increasingly responsible for much decision-making on local […]

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Briefing paper

Dare to Lead: Public health and company wealth

01/01/2001

2 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Access to medicines

Overview

This is the first in a series of Oxfam Briefings analysing the impact on human development of transnational corporations (TNCs). It reviews the role of the newly formed GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and outlines three challenges facing GSK and other global pharmaceutical companies wishing to increase poor people’s access to medicines. First, how to ensure that changes […]

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Briefing note

21st Century Debt Relief

01/01/2001

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam welcomes the IMF and the World Bank’s drive to increase the number of countries receiving debt relief at the end of last year. 22 out of a possible 41 qualifying countries are now receiving debt relief – this is a good start. However, there is still much to be done to ensure that debt […]

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Research report

Welcome or Over-Reaction?: Refugees and asylum seekers in the Welsh media

14/05/2001

1 documents

61 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

In the 1990s the issue of refugees and asylum seekers has become highly politicised in the UK. Locally, regionally and nationally some politicians have used the issue of refugees claiming asylum in the United Kingdom to gain support for their own political parties. The national media focussed their reporting on the issues in London and […]

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Discussion paper

Equity and the Expansion of Access to Treatment and Care for HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa: Report of a workshop at ICASA

21/11/2003

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The Regional Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET) and Oxfam GB with government and civil society partners have since early 2003 initiated a programme of research and analysis in support of policy and advocacy focusing on HIV/AIDS and equity in health sector responses. The programme has held and reported on an expert […]

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