poverty

Fighting inequality is not just an issue of fairness but an economic necessity. That’s not Oxfam speaking, but the International Monetary Fund today. 

European states insisting on emerging countries providing their ‘fair share’ while continuously failing to reach their own aid targets is a backward step. 

At the close of the 2015 Spring meetings, Oxfam reacts to the summary of the event.

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has yet again failed to profile his commitment to tackling climate change and inequality as central to his aim in eradicating poverty by 2030.

The ICIJ’s exposure of immense human suffering around the world, linked to World Bank funding, should finally wake the Bank up to the reality of its failures.

The World Bank and the IMF must seize their early chance in what could be a watershed year to end extreme global poverty by putting the battle against inequality, climate change and tax dodging at the very top of its Spring Meetings’ agenda this week. 

New report reveals inequality in education persists. Oxfam calls for firm political and financial commitments for free, public education systems to end inequality.