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Far from improving their lives, it traps them in a cycle of economic hardship. Yet it is possible to overcome poverty, both in Scotland and across the UK – many of the solutions already exist, hidden within the very communities hit hardest by an economic […] View resource Research report Oxfam Humankind Index: The new measure of Scotland’s Prosperity, second results 10/06/2013 1 documents 15 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Advocacy Campaigning Civil society Economic empowerment Economic growth Health systems Housing Inequality Livelihoods Local Government Participation Poverty in the UK Social protection UK poverty Welfare Overview Last year, Oxfam Scotland came up with the Oxfam Humankind Index, a new way of measuring what makes a good life. The aim of the index is to assess Scotland’s prosperity through a holistic and more representative measure of progress, that goes beyond the dominant economic model, which relies on Gross Domestic Product as the […] View resource Research report Walking the Breadline: The scandal of food poverty in 21st-century Britain 30/05/2013 1 documents 20 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Food security Poverty in the UK UK poverty Overview Although the UK is the seventh richest country in the world, many people struggle to afford even the most essential of goods: food. In this briefing, Church Action on Poverty and Oxfam highlight the rise in food poverty in the UK, where over 500,000 are now thought to be reliant on food parcels. Figures from […] View resource Case study Within and Without the State: Effective Programming in Fragile Contexts 09/05/2013 1 documents 6 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Active citizenship Capacity building Civil society Conflict Development methods Fragile contexts Inequality Local Government Programme management Overview Within and Without the State (WWS) is piloting innovative approaches to working with civil society to promote more accountable governance in conflict-affected and fragile contexts. This six-page leaflet provides an overview of WWS’s work from 2011-13 in its four focus countries: Yemen, South Sudan, Afghanistan and OPTI. It explores the different approaches taken to governance work […] View resource Case study Citizens, State, and Good Governance: Building a ‘Social Contract’ in South Sudan 02/05/2013 1 documents 4 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Active citizenship Civil society Conflict Fragile contexts Governance Local Government Social contract Transparency Overview The Within and Without the State (WWS) programme is using a variety of approaches to strengthen civil society and promote more accountable governance in conflict-affected and fragile contexts. The programme is working in Afghanistan, Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel, South Sudan and Yemen. This case study is focused on the work in South Sudan. Here […] View resource Discussion paper Urban Poverty in India and Post-MDG Framework 01/04/2013 1 documents 32 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords MDGs Millenium Development Goals Post-2015 framework Urban Overview In spite of rapid economic growth over the last decade, India’s urban areas show high levels of inequality, with many social groups being left behind in most of the areas covered by the current Millennium Development Goals framework. There is a need for the post-2015 agenda to address inequality and aim for transformative outcomes. This […] View resource Issue briefing Summary of Oxfam response to UK government Measuring Child Poverty consultation 15/02/2013 1 documents 15 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Poverty in the UK UK poverty Wellbeing Overview In November 2012, the Department of Work and Pensions of the UK Government launched a consultation in order to design a better measurement of child poverty in the UK. Oxfam submitted a response in which we highlight that income and relative poverty must remain at the core of any measurement of poverty in the UK. […] View resource Media briefing How Tackling Tax Evasion Could Help Overcome Poverty in the UK 31/01/2013 1 documents 6 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Inequality Media Poverty in the UK Taxation Transparency UK poverty Welfare Overview The equivalent of nearly £200 per household is being lost through illegal tax evasion, as 220,000 people in the UK are forced to go to charity foodbanks, according to this Oxfam media briefing. Whilst many people in the UK are submitting their tax returns today, new figures from Oxfam reveal that illegal tax evasion by […] View resource Case study Building Civil Society in the West Bank: A report of the fostering community change project 24/01/2013 1 documents 5 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Active citizenship Capacity building Civil society Development methods Fragile contexts Local Government Participation Training Overview The Within and Without the State (WWS) programme is using a variety of approaches to strengthen civil society and promote more accountable governance in conflict-affected and fragile contexts. The programme is working in Afghanistan, Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel, South Sudan and Yemen. This case study features the work in the West Bank. Here WWS […] View resource Media briefing The Cost of Inequality: How wealth and income extremes hurt us all 18/01/2013 1 documents 5 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Media Taxation Overview An explosion in extreme wealth and income is exacerbating inequality and hindering the world’s ability to tackle poverty. The $240 billion net income in 2012 of the richest 100 billionaires would be enough to end extreme poverty four times over, according to this Oxfam media briefing. It calls on world leaders to curb today’s income […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 … Page 44 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know