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

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The 2020 Jubilee: Stop all debt payments now!

Jaime Atienza

April 15th, 2020 Health, Inequality

This week, nearly all the world’s governments will hold online talks at the Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank. The biggest countries – the G20 – must lead …

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Rasheda in Chittagong, Bangladesh, has to share a water tap with 25 people and cannot afford basic healthcare. Credit: GMB Akash/Oxfam

The EU’s role in fighting the inequality virus

Oxfam International

April 9th, 2020 Inequality

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Students from sewing class, partner AFPF in Tunisia. City of Methuia. Photo: Lotte Ærsøe

Ten lessons on entrepreneurship and job creation in the MENA region

Shekhar Anand

March 26th, 2020 Inequality, Women's Economic Empowerment, Youth employment

Job creation in the MENA Region, the context and challenges   The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region face unemployment as a common challenge. The youth population is growing but …

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Levelling up: how wealth taxes can reduce inequalities

Oliver Pearce

March 10th, 2020 In the news, Inequality, Poverty in the UK, Tax

How far will this week’s budget go in ‘levelling up’ the UK in line with the government’s stated aims? Whilst much of the public debate has centred on what changes …

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German supermarkets commit to tackle low wages

Rachel Wilshaw and Barbara Sennholz-Weinhardt

January 31st, 2020 Inequality, Private sector

Oxfam welcomes the commitment by almost all big German supermarkets to work towards living wages and living incomes for the people who produce the food the retailers sell. Several German …

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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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Podcast: The politics of counting, review of “The Uncounted” with Alex Cobham

Amy Moran

November 26th, 2019 Book Banter, Inequality, Tax

We speak to the Tax Justice Network‘s Alex Cobham about his upcoming book “The Uncounted”, which gives an insight into the politics of counting. Franziska Mager from Oxfam GB, also …

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What do the tax rates UK companies pay tell us about the need for global tax reform?

Oliver Pearce

October 2nd, 2019 Tax

Amidst stories of companies avoiding tax (for example, Mauritius Leaks recently), and apparently endless international discussions about how to deal with this phenomenon, it can be difficult to understand whether multinational companies are …

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