éducation

The Inequality Virus

25 January 2021

The coronavirus crisis has exposed our collective frailty and the inability of our deeply unequal economy to work for all. Yet it has also shown us the vital importance of government action to protect our health and livelihoods, and to create a more equal and sustainable world.
Reducing inequality: what is your country doing to tackle the gap between rich and poor?

8 October 2018

The coronavirus pandemic has swept across a world that was already profoundly unequal.The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2020 shows that no country in the world was doing enough to tackle inequality prior to the pandemic. This is helping to fuel the crisis and has increased the vulnerability of people living in poverty, especially women.
Fighting inequality in the time of COVID-19: The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2020

8 October 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has swept across a world unprepared to fight it. Only one in six countries assessed for the CRI Index 2020 were spending enough on health, and in more than 100 countries at least one in three workers had no labour protection such as sick pay.
Fiscal justice in Tunisia: a vaccine against austerity

17 June 2020

This study takes stock of inequalities in Tunisia, especially those sustained by an unjust fiscal system. Oxfam puts forth concrete recommendation to turn the page on austerity policies and advocates for fiscal justice and wider redistributive policies in Tunisia.
As the cycle of crisis continues in Somalia, vital remittance pipelines risk being cut

19 February 2015

Somalia’s financial lifeline remains under threat as banks in US, UK, Australia, and elsewhere have broken ties with the money transfer operators that make remittances possible, NGOs warn.
Afghan women frozen out of peace talks, in danger of losing gains made since fall of the Taliban

24 November 2014

Afghan women are consistently excluded from Afghanistan’s peace negotiations and formal talks about the country’s future. Unless this discrimination is reversed, Afghanistan’s development will be compromised, and enormous human rights gains made since the fall of the Taliban will remain under threat.
Tax systems in Latin America and the Caribbean work for the benefit of the elites

9 September 2014

The governments of Latin America and the Caribbean must implement fiscal reforms that benefit all citizens and not only economic and political elites, according to Oxfam.
Donors fail education test but poor countries get a good grade at key pledging conference

26 June 2014

The support required to get 57 million children into primary school fell more than a billion dollars short of its target – that’s the disappointing outcome of the Global Partnershi
After Equality

10 June 2014

Economic inequality in Russia – skewed income and wealth distribution – increased sharply in the transition from a state socialist system to a capitalist market economy.
Oxfam on G7 summit: Stronger steer needed on energy security, climate change and the global economy

5 June 2014

Energy security, climate change and the global economy were among the main topics the G7 leaders addressed during the