Catch up on our top papers and blogs of last year, as selected by Oxfam’s Policy & Practice team.
You might think Rolling Stone magazine is too hip to react to Oxfam research – but at the start of last year it surprised us with this memorable response to our Davos inequality report: “Think billionaires suck? Get ready for trillionaires”. That headline was spurred by our revelation that it looks as if the world will get its first trillionaire within a decade – but poverty won’t be eradicated for another two centuries.
Throughout 2024, in the face of continuing devastation in Gaza, Oxfam also continued to push for a ceasefire and for the UK government to Stop Arming Israel. Alongside this campaign, we published a blog explaining why Oxfam joined a legal case on UK arms sales; a paper setting out seven ways Israel has obstructed humanitarian responses in Gaza; and a paper on water war crimes.
The year also saw a big moment for our blogging with the departure from Oxfam of Duncan Green, who has run the respected From Poverty to Power (FP2P) blog for 16 years. Read his thoughts about the “big hits and misses” from some 3500 blogs. For the moment, the Policy & Practice team is co-editing the FP2P blog with Duncan (alongside this blog), as we work out its future.
Catch up on all our picks of the top 10 papers and top 10 blogs of 2024 in our end-of-year newsletter, which you can read here.