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Research report

An Invisible Crisis? Women’s poverty and social exclusion in the European Union at a time of recession – A GenderWorks paper

24/03/2010

2 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

All over the world, women remain poor in relation to men. This also is true in every member state of the European Union. The persistence of poverty in such a rich region of the world is shocking, even before the impact of recession has been considered.In October 2009, Oxfam and the European Women’s Lobby, commissioned […]

Research report

Behaviour Change Theory in Practice: A review of four HIV organisations

01/11/2007

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

HIV and AIDS

Overview

The brief for this report was to produce case studies of behaviour change for HIV risk from Oxfam-partnered non-governmental organisations from the Limpopo province, in the ‘far north’ of South Africa. The research process aimed at locating behaviour change in social science theory and developing case studies of four organisations with a focus on the […]

Research report

Beyond the Crisis: The impact of the financial crisis on women in Vietnam

15/02/2010

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This research report on Vietnam is one of four country case studies that were commissioned by Oxfam GB to assess the impact of the global economic crisis on women in South East Asia. It concludes that women in the export-manufacturing sector, including the garment and textile industries, have been hardest hit by the crisis both […]

Research report

Bolivia: Climate change, poverty and adaptation

04/11/2009

4 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Climate change adaptation

Overview

Bolivia is a country particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In July 2009, a team of Oxfam researchers travelled to three areas of Bolivia (Trinidad in Beni, the Cochabamba valleys and Khapi under Mount Illimani, in La Paz) to take a snapshot of how poor families are experiencing the changing climate, and how […]

Research report

Women and Social Exclusion: Oxfam submission to NAP 2008

01/04/2008

3 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English, German, Italian

Keywords

Overview

The GenderWorks project was ran by in 2008-2009 in partnership with two European organisations, WAVE in Austria and Lamoro in Italy, and focused on investigating women’s experiences of social exclusion in Europe and the policy processes and methodological tools that can be used to address women’s social exclusion. This document – one of the final […]

Briefing note

21st Century Debt Relief

01/01/2001

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

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 […]

Briefing paper

Dare to Lead: Public health and company wealth

01/01/2001

2 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

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 […]

Briefing note

Everything But Arms and Sugar

14/12/2000

1 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

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’ […]

Briefing paper

Growth With Equity is Good for the Poor

27/06/2000

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Finance

Overview

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 […]

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

Keywords

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 […]

Showing 455 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

An Invisible Crisis? Women’s poverty and social exclusion in the European Union at a time of recession – A GenderWorks paper

24/03/2010

2 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

All over the world, women remain poor in relation to men. This also is true in every member state of the European Union. The persistence of poverty in such a rich region of the world is shocking, even before the impact of recession has been considered.In October 2009, Oxfam and the European Women’s Lobby, commissioned […]

Research report

Behaviour Change Theory in Practice: A review of four HIV organisations

01/11/2007

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

HIV and AIDS

Overview

The brief for this report was to produce case studies of behaviour change for HIV risk from Oxfam-partnered non-governmental organisations from the Limpopo province, in the ‘far north’ of South Africa. The research process aimed at locating behaviour change in social science theory and developing case studies of four organisations with a focus on the […]

Research report

Beyond the Crisis: The impact of the financial crisis on women in Vietnam

15/02/2010

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This research report on Vietnam is one of four country case studies that were commissioned by Oxfam GB to assess the impact of the global economic crisis on women in South East Asia. It concludes that women in the export-manufacturing sector, including the garment and textile industries, have been hardest hit by the crisis both […]

Research report

Bolivia: Climate change, poverty and adaptation

04/11/2009

4 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Climate change adaptation

Overview

Bolivia is a country particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In July 2009, a team of Oxfam researchers travelled to three areas of Bolivia (Trinidad in Beni, the Cochabamba valleys and Khapi under Mount Illimani, in La Paz) to take a snapshot of how poor families are experiencing the changing climate, and how […]

Research report

Women and Social Exclusion: Oxfam submission to NAP 2008

01/04/2008

3 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English, German, Italian

Keywords

Overview

The GenderWorks project was ran by in 2008-2009 in partnership with two European organisations, WAVE in Austria and Lamoro in Italy, and focused on investigating women’s experiences of social exclusion in Europe and the policy processes and methodological tools that can be used to address women’s social exclusion. This document – one of the final […]

Briefing note

21st Century Debt Relief

01/01/2001

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

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 […]

Briefing paper

Dare to Lead: Public health and company wealth

01/01/2001

2 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

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 […]

Briefing note

Everything But Arms and Sugar

14/12/2000

1 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

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’ […]

Briefing paper

Growth With Equity is Good for the Poor

27/06/2000

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Finance

Overview

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 […]

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

Keywords

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 […]

Showing 455 matching results from Policy & Practice

Research report

An Invisible Crisis? Women’s poverty and social exclusion in the European Union at a time of recession – A GenderWorks paper

24/03/2010

2 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

All over the world, women remain poor in relation to men. This also is true in every member state of the European Union. The persistence of poverty in such a rich region of the world is shocking, even before the impact of recession has been considered.In October 2009, Oxfam and the European Women’s Lobby, commissioned […]

Research report

Behaviour Change Theory in Practice: A review of four HIV organisations

01/11/2007

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

HIV and AIDS

Overview

The brief for this report was to produce case studies of behaviour change for HIV risk from Oxfam-partnered non-governmental organisations from the Limpopo province, in the ‘far north’ of South Africa. The research process aimed at locating behaviour change in social science theory and developing case studies of four organisations with a focus on the […]

Research report

Beyond the Crisis: The impact of the financial crisis on women in Vietnam

15/02/2010

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This research report on Vietnam is one of four country case studies that were commissioned by Oxfam GB to assess the impact of the global economic crisis on women in South East Asia. It concludes that women in the export-manufacturing sector, including the garment and textile industries, have been hardest hit by the crisis both […]

Research report

Bolivia: Climate change, poverty and adaptation

04/11/2009

4 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Climate change adaptation

Overview

Bolivia is a country particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In July 2009, a team of Oxfam researchers travelled to three areas of Bolivia (Trinidad in Beni, the Cochabamba valleys and Khapi under Mount Illimani, in La Paz) to take a snapshot of how poor families are experiencing the changing climate, and how […]

Research report

Women and Social Exclusion: Oxfam submission to NAP 2008

01/04/2008

3 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English, German, Italian

Keywords

Overview

The GenderWorks project was ran by in 2008-2009 in partnership with two European organisations, WAVE in Austria and Lamoro in Italy, and focused on investigating women’s experiences of social exclusion in Europe and the policy processes and methodological tools that can be used to address women’s social exclusion. This document – one of the final […]

Briefing note

21st Century Debt Relief

01/01/2001

1 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

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 […]

Briefing paper

Dare to Lead: Public health and company wealth

01/01/2001

2 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

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 […]

Briefing note

Everything But Arms and Sugar

14/12/2000

1 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

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’ […]

Briefing paper

Growth With Equity is Good for the Poor

27/06/2000

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Finance

Overview

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 […]

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

Keywords

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 […]