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The European Commission’s new plan to boost the role of the private sector in development cooperation could put efforts to reduce poverty second to the interests of European companies, said leading

As development leaders from around the world gather in Mexico City to participate in the first High Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation this week, Oxfam is asking a crucial question: What will be Mexico’s legacy?

The 2013 elections helped to restore constitutional order in Mali and marked the start of a period of hope for peace, stability and development.

Inequality is central to Oxfam’s mission to fight poverty.

How can low carbon development be pursued without making inequality and food insecurity worse?

Regarding the Somalia Conference in London, Oxfam says:

Africa’s remarkable growth, driven in large part by a minerals and energy boom, is threatened by illicit capital outflows and widening income gaps.

Land eight times the size of the UK was sold off globally in the last decade, enough to grow food for a billion people, or the equivalent to the number of people who go hungry in the world today.

Oxfam Afghanistan's head of policy and advocacy, Louise Hancock, said:

Oxfam strongly welcomes the European Parliament’s vote against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) by a majority of 478 votes out of 682. ACTA would have posed a serious