poverty

  • While a minority of super-rich Kenyans are accumulating wealth and income, the fruits of economic growth are failing to trickle down to the poorest.

    Kenya: extreme inequality in numbers

    5 December 2017
  • Ambitious vision lacking in EU’s 2018 budget, say NGOs

    18 November 2017
  • In South Sudan, Oxfam trained producers in good cultivation, storage and marketing techniques. Elizabeth is now cultivating new vegetables. “With the money I make, I can send my children to school and pay for healthcare” she says. Photo: Tim Bierley/Oxfam

    Empowering women farmers to end hunger and poverty

    12 October 2017
  • Despite lifting millions of people out of poverty over the last decades, Brazil still faces a huge gap between the country’s richest and the rest of the population. Photo: Apu Gomes/Oxfam

    Brazil: extreme inequality in numbers

    24 September 2017
  • In Gaza, Israel’s occupation includes a 10-year land, air and sea blockade that has trapped almost two million people inside the 60-kilometre wall, isolating and depriving them of their rights. Photo: Adeline Guerra/Oxfam

    Timeline: the humanitarian impact of the Gaza blockade

    15 June 2017
  • Cocoa farmers in Nigeria

    Inequality in Nigeria: exploring the drivers

    16 May 2017
  • A young street vendor selling candy in Lagos, Nigeria. Photo: Mies van der Putte/Oxfam

    Nigeria: extreme inequality in numbers

    16 May 2017