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Under The Radar: Private sector debt and coronavirus in developing countries

14 Oct 2020

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

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The coronavirus pandemic is leaving a trail of devastation in low-income countries – from widespread loss of life from the virus itself, to huge economic disruption that has left hundreds of millions of people – already struggling to make ends meet – without jobs or sufficient food. Despite this huge economic shock, many developing countries […]

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Confronting Carbon Inequality: Putting climate justice at the heart of the COVID-19 recovery

21 Sep 2020

4 documents

12 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Despite sharp falls in carbon emissions in 2020 linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis – which is driven by the accumulation of emissions in the atmosphere over time – continued to grow. This briefing describes new research that shows how extreme carbon inequality in recent decades has brought the world to the climate […]

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Passing the Buck on Debt Relief: How the failure of the private sector to cancel debts is fueling a crisis across the developing world

16 Jul 2020

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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The Covid-19 pandemic will not be defeated unless it’s defeated in all countries. In developing countries, where public health spending is often severely constrained, significant debt cancellation will be necessary to deal with the double whammy of health and economic crises. Leaders of G20 countries, the IMF and the UN have acknowledged the need for […]

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The Hunger Virus: How COVID-19 is fuelling hunger in a hungry world

09 Jul 2020

3 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

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COVID-19 is deepening the hunger crisis in the world’s hunger hotspots and creating new epicentres of hunger across the globe. By the end of the year 12,000 people per day could die from hunger linked to COVID-19, potentially more than will die from the disease itself. The pandemic is the final straw for millions of […]

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Dignity Not Destitution: An ‘Economic Rescue Plan For All’ to tackle the Coronavirus crisis and rebuild a more equal world

09 Apr 2020

4 documents

18 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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New analysis shows the economic crisis caused by Coronavirus could push over half a billion people into poverty unless urgent and dramatic action is taken. This virus affects us all, even princes and prime ministers. But the equality ends there. By exploiting the extreme inequalities between rich and poor people, rich and poor nations and […]

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How to Confront the Coronavirus Catastrophe: The Global Public Health Plan and Emergency Response needed now

30 Mar 2020

3 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The Coronavirus is impacting everyone across the globe. People fear for their own health and for that of their loved ones. The virus exposes extreme inequalities, affecting the most vulnerable people and those living in poverty, at home and around the world. It threatens to take many millions of lives and push billions more into […]

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Forced from Home: Climate-fuelled displacement

02 Dec 2019

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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Climate-fuelled disasters were the number one driver of internal displacement over the last decade – forcing an estimated 20 million people a year from their homes. While no one is immune, it is overwhelmingly poor countries that are most at risk. Eighty percent of those displaced in the last decade live in Asia, home to […]

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Who Takes the Heat? Untold stories of climate crisis in the Horn of Africa and Mozambique

23 Sep 2019

3 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Battered by cyclones and ravaged by extreme drought, poor communities in the Horn of Africa and Mozambique have found themselves on the front line of a climate crisis they did little to create. Yet the international community has largely abandoned the world’s poorest countries – providing support worth an average of just $3 per person […]

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UK Aid and Arms in Yemen

09 Sep 2019

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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The conflict in Yemen between the internationally recognized government backed by a Saudi Arabia-led coalition and Houthi forces has fuelled a huge humanitarian crisis which has left millions of Yemenis hungry, led to tens of thousands of deaths and forced almost four million people to flee their homes. The United Kingdom has donated hundreds of millions […]

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The G7’s Deadly Sins: How the G7 is fuelling the inequality crisis

22 Aug 2019

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French

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President Macron has promised to make the fight against inequality a priority at this year’s G7 Summit in France. G7 leaders regularly pay lip service to the dangers of extreme inequality, yet they are actively fuelling inequality at home and across the globe. In this briefing, Oxfam sets out the seven key issues the G7 […]

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