inequality

Africa’s remarkable growth, driven in large part by a minerals and energy boom, is threatened by illicit capital outflows and widening income gaps.

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund need to ditch the ‘trickle down’ economics of the past and lead the fight against inequality if they are serious about the new target to end extreme poverty by 2030.

Millions of poor people will go without life-saving food and medicines as donor aid pledges to poor countries are breached.

Acting head of Oxfam’s Washington office Didier Jacobs said:

Oxfam believes that reducing inequality is fundamental to fair and sustainable development.

A draft document entitled “A Common Vision for the World Bank Group”, which will be discussed

An explosion in extreme wealth and income is exacerbating inequality and hindering the world’s ability to tackle poverty, Oxfam warned today in a briefing published ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos next week.

This paper aims to contribute to a constructive and deep debate on how to increase equality and justice in Paraguay’s taxation system.

Paraguay’s tax system is insufficient to provide the resource base to eradicate poverty in the country, and has done little or nothing to achieve a more equal distribution of income and wea

Inequality has increased in 14 of the 18 G20 countries since 1990 as economic growth has too often failed to benefit poor people.