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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 Briefing paper An Economy For the 1%: How privilege and power in the economy drive extreme inequality and how this can be stopped 18/01/2016 10 documents 44 pages long Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Extractive industry Financial sector Garment industry Inequality Tax havens Overview The global inequality crisis is reaching new extremes. The richest 1% now have more wealth than the rest of the world combined. Power and privilege is being used to skew the economic system to increase the gap between the richest and the rest. A global network of tax havens further enables the richest individuals to […] View resource Media briefing Inequality and the End of Extreme Poverty 21/09/2015 1 documents 8 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Extreme poverty Inequality MDGs Millenium Development Goals Millennium Development Goals SDGs Sustainable Development Goals Overview Fifteen years after the launch of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and a decade after G7 leaders gathered in Gleneagles to promise to ‘make poverty history’, the end of extreme poverty is within reach. Later this week at a special session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, world leaders will agree the […] View resource Research report Background Data for Oxfam Briefing ‘A Europe For the Many, Not the Few’: Exploring inequality data for 28 countries in the European Union 09/09/2015 5 documents 24 pages long Languages: English, French, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Data EU European Union Overview The EU is a group of rich countries characterized by high incomes, stable institutions, and home to 342 billionaires. It is also where 123 million people are at risk of poverty. Inequality is an unacceptable injustice; inequality in the EU is discussed in Oxfam’s policy briefing ‘A Europe For the Many, Not the Few‘. By […] View resource Issue briefing Wealth: Having it all and wanting more 19/01/2015 5 documents 12 pages long Languages: English, French, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Inequality Methodology Wealth WEF World Economic Forum Overview Global wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small wealthy elite. These wealthy individuals have generated and sustained their vast riches through their interests and activities in a few important economic sectors, including finance and insurance, and pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Companies from these sectors spend millions of dollars every year on lobbying to […] View resource Spotted an error? Let us know