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The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2024

21/10/2024

4 documents

78 pages long

Languages: English

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Now in its fifth edition, the Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index (CRI) assesses the commitment of 164 countries and regions to fighting inequality. The CRI 2024 offers powerful new evidence on whether governments are acting to reduce inequality through policies on public services, fair taxation and labour rights. It reveals negative trends in the vast […]

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Briefing paper

Food Wars: Conflict, Hunger, and Globalization, 2023

16/10/2024

1 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Most wars of the late 20th and early 21st centuries have been “food wars”: food and hunger were used as weapons, food and food-related water and energy infrastructure were damaged intentionally or incidentally, and food insecurity persisted as a legacy of conflict destructiveness. Frequently, food insecurity, in turn, is a trigger or underlying cause of […]

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Briefing paper

Beyond Crises: The future of Special Drawing Rights as a source of development and climate finance

13/06/2024

2 documents

25 pages long

Languages: English

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The allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) during the COVID-19 pandemic has generated considerable interest in using SDRs as a tool for development and climate finance. This policy brief argues that the monetary logic that underpins SDRs justifies regular allocations of at least $200 billion a year, and more than doubling the share of low-and […]

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Research report

Unseen Work, Unmet Needs: Exploring the intersections of gender, race and ethnicity in unpaid care labor and paid labor in the U.S.

25/04/2024

2 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam America and Prosperity Now have embarked on a comprehensive joint research project to explore the dynamics of women’s paid and unpaid labor in the US, particularly for women of color, who are disproportionately affected by the dual impact of paid work and unpaid care responsibilities. This report adopts an intersectional lens to delve into […]

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Briefing paper

Valued: Breaking the link between paid and unpaid care, poverty and inequalities across Britain

16/04/2024

4 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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This briefing paper shows how the undervaluation of paid and unpaid care drives poverty and inequalities across Britain, and it outlines a transformational vision for change. Every day, millions of people, mostly women, provide essential paid and unpaid care for children and disabled, ill and older people. Yet their huge contribution remains widely unseen, undervalued […]

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Shifting Narratives to Value Unpaid and Informal Work in Kenya

05/04/2024

2 documents

88 pages long

Languages: English

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Unpaid Care and Domestic Work (UCDW) and Paid Domestic Work (PDW) are essential to societal wellbeing. However, these activities often carry negative perceptions, attitudes and beliefs when performed by men and boys. As a result, women and girls typically shoulder the primary responsibility for performing UCDW. Similarly, society often undervalues PDW by perceiving it as […]

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Research report

Reframing Narratives Around Care and Informal Work in Kenya, the UK and Zimbabwe: A synthesis of national research

05/02/2024

2 documents

43 pages long

Languages: English

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This research study across three countries – Kenya, UK, and Zimbabwe – was carried out to identify the dominant narratives that influence public perceptions of care and informal work. It enabled the researchers to develop and test new narratives that could be used to improve public attitudes towards care and informal work. Creating new stories […]

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Briefing paper

Inequality Inc. How corporate power divides our world and the need for a new era of public action

15/01/2024

9 documents

71 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Since 2020, the richest five men in the world have doubled their fortunes. During the same period, almost five billion people globally have become poorer. Hardship and hunger are a daily reality for many people worldwide. At current rates, it will take 230 years to end poverty, but we could have our first trillionaire in […]

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Briefing paper

Valuing Women’s Work: A framework for business on gender equality and decent work

21/11/2023

1 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

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Our strategic focus, Valuing Women’s Work (VWW), aims to redefine what ‘work’ means so that all the work women do – paid and unpaid – can truly be valued. This first briefing from the forthcoming series, Briefings for Business on Valuing Women’s Work, is an overview and introduces some of the issues we will be […]

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Briefing paper

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

05/10/2023

6 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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