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Briefing paper

Business Briefing on Unpaid Care and Domestic Work: Why unpaid care by women and girls matters to business, and how companies can address it

04/06/2019

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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There is growing evidence that business leaders and managers understand that the unequal and heavy share of unpaid care and domestic work done by women and girls is an issue which matters to the effective (on-going) operations of their firms. Some companies have already taken practical steps to address the issue by supporting employees along […]

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Briefing paper

Accountability Deficit? Assessing the effectiveness of private finance blending in ensuring that small-scale farmers are not left behind

30/04/2019

2 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French

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To boost agricultural development in developing countries, donors are increasingly resorting to blended finance: the practice of combining public development funds with private resources. Blended finance may open opportunities to inject more resources into the food and agriculture sector, but the assumptions that blended finance is inherently beneficial for agricultural development and that it is […]

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Briefing paper

False Promises: How delivering education through public-private partnerships risks fueling inequality instead of achieving quality education for all

09/04/2019

2 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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A growing body of evidence shows that education public-private partnerships (PPPs) which support private schooling are too often failing the most vulnerable children and risk deepening inequality. Despite this, the World Bank has been increasingly promoting education PPPs in poor countries through its lending and advice. Oxfam’s research shows that over a fifth of World […]

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Briefing paper

Ten Years After the Global Food Price Crisis, Rural Women Still Bear the Brunt of Poverty and Hunger

29/03/2019

3 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Ten years after the global food price crisis, women are still disproportionately disadvantaged by structural and emerging market factors that mean that they bear the brunt of poverty and hunger. Women and smallholder farmers in particular have been negatively affected by trade policy, competitive markets, and the accumulation of private power. There is, however, insufficient […]

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Evaluation report

The Gender Transformative and Responsible Agribusiness Investments in South-East Asia programme: Phase 1 evaluation report

14/03/2019

2 documents

80 pages long

Languages: English

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The Gender Transformative and Responsible Agribusiness Investments in South-East Asia (GRAISEA) programme is a three-year programme that aims to improve the livelihoods of women and men small-scale producers in Asia through more responsible and inclusive value chains and private sector investments. The programme hopes to achieve the recognition of women as central actors in their […]

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Research report

The People Behind the Prices: A Focused Human Rights Impact Assessment of SOK Corporation’s Italian Processed Tomato Supply Chains

06/02/2019

2 documents

100 pages long

Languages: English

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This focused Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) of SOK Corporation's Italian processed tomato supply chains is a pilot for the company's new approach to assessing human rights impacts in high risk supply chains that goes ‘beyond audits’. The assessment took place over six months, and consisted of five phases of analysis in a methodology aligned […]

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Briefing paper

Public Good or Private Wealth? Universal health, education and other public services reduce the gap between rich and poor, and between women and men

21/01/2019

13 documents

40 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Vietnamese

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Our economy is broken, with hundreds of millions of people living in extreme poverty while huge rewards go to those at the very top. The number of billionaires has doubled since the financial crisis and their fortunes grow by $2.5bn a day, yet the super-rich and corporations are paying lower rates of tax than they […]

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Case study

Women’s Economic Empowerment: supporting women-led business

18/01/2019

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Women’s economic empowerment is not solely about economic growth. Achieving meaningful economic empowerment requires transformative and systemic change for women across social, political and economic domains. Oxfam in OPT supports the development of small and medium-sized enterprises to increase their processing capacity and profit. This includes skills training, material support, improving access to markets and […]

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Research report

Democracias capturadas: el gobierno de unos pocos

16/11/2018

3 documents

115 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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El informe Democracias capturadas: el gobierno de unos pocos presenta 13 casos que demuestran cómo las élites políticas y económicas manipulan la toma de decisiones de los gobiernos, con el fin de maximizar sus privilegios fiscales por encima de los derechos y beneficios de las mayorías en América Latina y el Caribe, la región más desigual del […]

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Briefing note

Powering the Transition: World Bank and other IFI energy lending in Asia

10/10/2018

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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This year, the World Bank is holding its Annual Meetings in Asia. This is a region that will be key to the success of the global energy transition, and at the same time has much to lose if it does not happen fast enough, because its people are so vulnerable to climate change. The most […]

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