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Vietnam has a strong record of poverty reduction, but today, increasing inequality is threatening decades of progress. Credit: Eleanor Farmer/Oxfam

Why taxing wealth more effectively can help to reduce inequality and poverty

Oliver Pearce

August 22nd, 2019 Inequality, Tax

Since 2014, Oxfam’s Even It Up campaign has been pressing governments to tackle economic inequality because it is hindering efforts to end poverty. Recent World Bank estimates show that according …

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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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Zimbabwe maternity unit. Photo: Ilvy Njiokiktjien/Oxfam Novib.

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

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Dialysis treatment room, Bach Mai Hospital, Vietnam. Credit: Adam Patterson/Oxfam

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

Max Lawson

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

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Davos is here again

Duncan Green

January 21st, 2019 Economics, Gender, In the news, Inequality, Methodology, Private sector, Tax

Duncan Green summarises Oxfam’s new report.

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Running to classes at Malambo primary school, Ngorongoro, Tanzania. Credit: Geoff Sayer/Oxfam

Health, wealth and the great escape out of poverty

Franziska Mager

June 22nd, 2017 Book Banter, General, Inequality

Could the history of the last 250 years provide the clues to ending poverty and inequality? Angus Deaton’s book The Great Escape makes a compelling case for improving global well-being …

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The politics of inequality; who is measuring what and why?

Deborah Hardoon

October 24th, 2016 Inequality, Methodology, Real Geek

Our latest real geek instalment explores different measurements of inequality and how our understanding of the data they produce is crucial to the issue as a whole. here is no …

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