No matter where you live, the world is more unequal than you realise

Franziska Mager and Christopher Hoy

February 5th, 2019 Inequality, Research Leave a Comment

Imagining alternative futures

John Magrath

February 5th, 2019 Agriculture, Climate Change, Food & livelihoods, Food security, Methodology, Participation and Leadership, Research, Youth Leave a Comment

Programme Researcher, John Magrath, describes the process of applying ‘participatory scenario development’ to explore how Bangladesh might achieve zero hunger and zero carbon emissions by 2041. It is tempting to …

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Taxing wealth is key to fighting inequality

Didier Jacobs

January 25th, 2019 Economics, Gender, General, In the news, Inequality, Private sector, Tax Leave a Comment

Conventional wisdom about taxing wealth is shifting, writes Didier Jacobs, Oxfam America’s Senior Policy Advisor. Long dismissed as unfeasible, and frowned upon as politically incorrect, radical ideas are now gaining …

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Seven brilliant questions you asked about Oxfam’s inequality report

Oxfam International

January 24th, 2019 Economics, Education, Health, In the news, Inequality, Private sector, Tax Leave a Comment

Feminist solutions to man-made economic inequality

Francesca Rhodes, Man-Kwun Chan and Anam Parvez Butt

January 24th, 2019 Economics, Education, Gender, Health, In the news, Inequality, Tax, Women's Economic Empowerment 1 Comment

Francesca Rhodes, Gender Policy Advisor, Man-Kwun Chan, Influencing Advisor, Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care, and Anam Parvez Butt, Gender Justice Research Lead at Oxfam GB outline some of the key …

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Why are relatively poor people not more supportive of redistribution?

Christopher Hoy

January 23rd, 2019 Economics, Inequality, Methodology, Research Leave a Comment

How has Oxfam’s approach to influencing evolved over the last 75 years?

Duncan Green

January 23rd, 2019 Aid, Influencing Leave a Comment

Inequality is bad for your health, and what you can do about it

Anna Marriott

January 22nd, 2019 Health, In the news, Inequality, Private sector Leave a Comment

Twenty five years more life: the real prize for tackling inequality

Max Lawson

January 22nd, 2019 Economics, Gender, Health, In the news, Inequality, Tax Leave a Comment

Making markets work in fragile settings

Shekhar Anand

January 22nd, 2019 Agriculture, Livelihoods, Private sector, Women's Economic Empowerment, Youth Leave a Comment

Oxfam OPT’s Economic Justice team shares four lessons learned from their market system development (MSD) work with small-scale farmers in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian …

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