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Briefing paper

Education Charges: A tax on human development

01/10/2001

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

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

Ending the R&D Crisis in Public Health: Promoting pro-poor medical innovation

13/11/2008

6 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Spanish

Keywords

Access to medicines

Overview

Diseases that disproportionately affect the developing world cause immense suffering and ill health. Medical innovation has the potential to deliver new medicines, vaccines, and diagnostics to overcome these diseases, yet few treatments have emerged. Current efforts to resolve the crisis are inadequate: financing for research and development (R&D) is insufficient, uncoordinated, and mostly tied to […]

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Briefing paper

Generic Competition, Price and Access to Medicines: The case of antiretrovirals in Uganda

10/07/2002

2 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Overview

Access to treatment is a key part of national strategies to combat HIV/AIDS. Antiretrovirals can increase the length and quality of life, and the productivity of patients. Research in Uganda shows that poor people will use ARVs if the price is right and if a delivery system is place. It also shows that the price […]

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Briefing paper

The Building Blocks of Sustainable Peace: The views of internally displaced people in Northern Uganda

11/09/2007

3 documents

29 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

While international attention focuses on the negotiations in Juba between the Ugandan Government and the Lord’s Resistance Army, the views of those most affected by the conflict have so far not been adequately heard. Oxfam’s research with displaced people in Northern Uganda highlights that although people feel that their lives have improved since the talks […]

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Briefing paper

Truth or Consequences: Why the EU and the USA must reform their subsidies, or pay the price

30/11/2005

1 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The USA and the EU are currently blocking a deal to make trade fair in the Doha Development Round. In the wake of findings by the WTO that US cotton subsidies and EU sugar subsidies are illegal, this paper presents powerful new research detailing a slew of other rich country subsidies of $13bn that are […]

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Briefing note

What Happened at the G20? Initial analysis of the London summit

03/04/2009

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

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Financial crisis

Overview

G20 leaders met for the second time in London on 2 April, as the global economic crisis began to crash across the borders of poor countries with ever-greater severity. Oxfam’s research shows rising human impacts in the shape of job losses, falling remittances to the families of migrant workers and a particularly severe impact on […]

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Book

Beyond Access: Transforming policy and practice for gender equality in education

01/09/2005

1 documents

266 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

In a world in which poverty, social prejudice, and poor-quality provision cause an estimated 100 million girls to drop out of school before completing their primary education, it is not enough for governments to pledge themselves to increase girls’ access to school. This book presents a vision of a transformational education which would promote social […]

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Book

Transitional Settlement, Displaced Populations

13/06/2005

1 documents

240 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

It is often the national or regional coordinators of organisations who make decisions about whether to support the building of a refugee camp or to support refugees living with host families. Technical specialists, such as physical planners, are not always available until later on in the emergency. Compared with other sectors of response, there has […]

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Case study

A Life with Dignity: Honduran women raising voices to improve labour standards

01/11/2008

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

This paper shows how CODEMUH (Colectiva de Mujeres Hondureñas), a grassroots women’s collective in Honduras, mobilised a popular movement around labour rights in the country’s textile factories, or maquilas. Focusing on occupational health, CODEMUH ran a campaign which included research, training, and advocacy workshops for the women themselves, building alliances locally, nationally, and internationally, and […]

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Case study

Beyond Access for Girls and Boys: How to achieve good-quality, gender-equitable education

01/12/2005

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Overview

This is the first of nine papers in a series on Education and Gender Equality, which have been developed from the work of the Beyond Access: Gender, Education, and Development, project.1 The focus of the series is on how to ensure not only equal access to a basic education for boys and girls, but that […]

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