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As the globe tackles Coronavirus, this blog is highlighting the challenges of those affected and the systemic changes needed.

Why the Inequality Virus should be the talk of Davos this week

Julie Seghers

January 28th, 2021 Inequality, Tax

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Looking into the future: A father holds his daughter as he stands on a site from which local residents have recently been evicted

Will this be the first time in recorded history inequality has risen everywhere at once?

Didier Jacobs

January 26th, 2021 Inequality, Tax

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Adam is a Malian activist fighting for social justice

10 brilliant questions you asked about Oxfam’s inequality report

Oxfam

January 25th, 2021 Inequality, Tax

Oxfam’s new report, ‘The Inequality Virus’, reveals that the wealth of the ten richest men has increased by half a trillion dollars since the pandemic began. This is more than enough …

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10 brilliant questions you asked about Oxfam’s inequality report

Oxfam International

January 21st, 2020 Gender, Inequality

Oxfam’s new inequality report, which reveals that the world’s billionaires —just 2,153 people— have more wealth than 4.6 billion people, is making headlines across the globe. Since we launched our report, …

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Making care count: Valuing work and wellbeing over wealth

Julie Thekkudan, Anam Parvez Butt and Clare Coffey

January 21st, 2020 Gender, Inequality, Women's Economic Empowerment

We are heading into increasingly stormy times. Times when caring for each other will become more critical and challenging. By 2025, economies will be in crisis response mode, coping with …

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The daily, unpaid work that greases the wheels of the global economy

Professor Bev Skeggs

January 21st, 2020 Gender, Inequality

Let’s do a thought experiment: What would happen if as soon as women gave birth they handed over their babies to the fathers to take total responsibility, at all times, …

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

Franziska Mager and Christopher Hoy

February 5th, 2019 Inequality, Research

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Savelugu Girls Model School in Ghana, one of several model schools that are funded and administered by the local authorities. Photo: Lotte Ærsøe/Oxfam IBIS.

Taxing wealth is key to fighting inequality

Didier Jacobs

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

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

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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

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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