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Alternatives are urgently needed to facilitate the transition to a new economic model that supports a radically more equal, kinder, greener and feminist world in the present, while offering redress for historical damage and […] View resource Briefing paper Time to Care: Unpaid and underpaid care work and the global inequality crisis 20/01/2020 11 documents 64 pages long Languages: Arabic, English, French, Korean, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Davos 2020 Gender inequality Human economy Taxation Underpaid care work Unpaid care work Overview Economic inequality is out of control. In 2019, the world’s billionaires, only 2,153 people, had more wealth than 4.6 billion people. This great divide is based on a flawed and sexist economic system that values the wealth of the privileged few, mostly men, more than the billions of hours of the most essential work – […] View resource Discussion paper Fighting Inequality to Beat Poverty: The role of UK international development 04/06/2019 1 documents 36 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Accountability Civic space Gender justice Human economy Public services Overview UK international development actors – from government to private sector and NGOs – can play a key role in fighting extreme economic inequality to beat poverty in developing countries. This paper shares key principles, policies and programmes that have emerged from Oxfam’s work with partners around the world in recent years, so as to encourage […] View resource Briefing paper Public Good or Private Wealth? Universal health, education and other public services reduce the gap between rich and poor, and between women and men 21/01/2019 13 documents 40 pages long Languages: Arabic, English, French, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Vietnamese Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Davos 2019 Human economy Taxation Universal public services Unpaid care Women's rights Overview Our economy is broken, with hundreds of millions of people living in extreme poverty while huge rewards go to those at the very top. The number of billionaires has doubled since the financial crisis and their fortunes grow by $2.5bn a day, yet the super-rich and corporations are paying lower rates of tax than they […] View resource Research report Exploring the Need for Gender-Equitable Fiscal Policies for a Human Economy: Evidence from Uganda and Zimbabwe 08/03/2018 2 documents 64 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Fiscal policy Gender inequality Human economy Public spending Sub-Saharan Africa Unpaid care and domestic work Overview Fiscal policy can be a powerful tool for governments to help achieve a ‘human economy’, if these policies are designed to address gender inequalities and the gender biases in current macroeconomic thinking. This report uses the case of one element of fiscal policy – public spending – to demonstrate how such policy design could help […] View resource Briefing paper Reward Work, Not Wealth: To end the inequality crisis, we must build an economy for ordinary working people, not the rich and powerful. 22/01/2018 14 documents 70 pages long Languages: Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, French, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Corporate taxation Davos 2018 Economic growth Education Fair trade Finance Gender inequality Healthcare Human economy Labour rights Labour standards SDGs Supply chains Tax dodging Taxation Unpaid care Women's economic empowerment Women's rights Overview Last year saw the biggest increase in billionaires in history, one more every two days. This huge increase could have ended global extreme poverty seven times over. 82% of all wealth created in the last year went to the top 1%, and nothing went to the bottom 50%. Dangerous, poorly paid work for the many […] View resource Discussion paper Oxfam’s Future of Business Initiative: Promoting equitable businesses and fourth sector development 18/09/2017 1 documents 4 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords For-benefit enterprises Fourth sector Fourth Sector Development Initiative FSDI Future of Business Initiative Human economy Inequality Private sector Overview Since the turn of the century, the poorest half of the world’s population has received just 1% of the total increase in global wealth. Meanwhile, half the new wealth has gone to the richest 1%. At present, mainstream business is driving, rather than reversing, this disturbing trend. To help reverse this trend, we need rapid […] View resource Briefing paper Starting with People: A human economy approach to inclusive growth in Africa 02/05/2017 4 documents 28 pages long Languages: English, French, Portuguese Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Corporate taxation Economic growth Extractives Gender inequality Governance Healthcare Human economy Livelihoods Smallholder agriculture Unpaid care Violence Against Women and Girls World Economic Forum on Africa Overview High levels of inequality across Africa have prevented much of the benefits of recent growth from reaching the continent’s poorest people. To combat inequality in Africa, political and business leaders have to shape a profoundly different type of economy. It must start with the needs of Africa’s women and young people for good quality sustainable […] View resource Briefing paper An Economy for the 99%: It’s time to build a human economy that benefits everyone, not just the privileged few 16/01/2017 11 documents 48 pages long Languages: Chinese, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Billionaires Extreme wealth Human economy Inequality Poverty reduction Overview New estimates show that just eight men own the same wealth as the poorest half of the world. As growth benefits the richest, the rest of society – especially the poorest – suffers. The very design of our economies and the principles of our economics have taken us to this extreme, unsustainable and unjust point. […] View resource Spotted an error? Let us know