Policy Papers

The displacement of more than three million people in Pakistan has triggered one of the biggest emergency responses of the year.

This report reflects Oxfam’s emphasis on the role of sustainable livelihoods in rural areas, particularly agriculture, in reducing poverty and inequality.

Climate change affects poor people first and worst.

Climate-related shocks are affecting the lives of millions of poor people with increasing frequency and severity.

User fees for health care are a life or death issue for millions of people in poor countries. Too poor to pay, women and children are paying with their lives.

Over almost 50 years of Colombia’s armed conflict, sexual violence has been employed as a weapon of war by all of the armed groups – state military forces, paramilitaries

Poor crop yields, water shortages and more extreme temperatures are pushing rural villagers closer to the brink as climate change grips Nepal.

West Africa has the lowest literacy rates in the world. This report calculates the scale of the literacy crisis in West Africa, and explores what should be done about it.

In 2005 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) introduced the Policy Support Instrument (PSI).

The military operations launched against the FDLR since early 2009 have been presented as a bid for the unity (Umoja Wetu) and peace (Kimia II) that have so long eluded eastern DRC1.