Press Release: President of Namibia, Chief Minister of Sierra Leone, and other world leaders call for bolder action on inequality and SDG10 at UNGA
This week, world leaders came together on the sidelines of the 2023 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit to urge for more global attention to addressing inequality. In a joint statement, they highlighted the urgency to save the inequality global goal (SDG10) and dramatically accelerate efforts…
The Sun Never Sets on Colonial Wealth.
Colonialism and the origins of today’s extreme wealth inequality I remember being in Kenya in 2020 and seeing the pictures of those protestors throwing the statue of the slaver into the sea and being so excited. I had been researching a piece on the Mau…
Sick Development Ep 1-Introducing Sick Development
Transcripts Host, Maaza 00:11 Here are some people you’ve never met with whom you might share an unlikely connection: The family of the late George Mwenje Mwangi, they had to make a public appeal to raise funds to pay for the release of his body…
The Uncounted Rich
A few years ago, Alex Cobham published a great book which was called ‘The Uncounted’ and had a powerful central argument- inequality is much worse than we think, because so much of it is uncounted. At the bottom, because our data on poverty comes from…
75 years ago this week a miracle happened in my country.
A very un-British Miracle 75 years ago, this week a miracle happened in my country. On July the 5th, 1948, the National Health Service was launched. It was a truly incredible achievement, a significant slice of socialism in the birthplace of capitalism. A tax funded,…
The miracle of equitable economic growth, and why we need it now more than ever.
My first proper job for Oxfam was wonderful. I had just returned from living in Malawi, and I got a job supporting Oxfam offices working on governance and public policies. As part of this job, I travelled for the first time to Vietnam, and I…
Land inequality, my friend Robin and Malawi
Mulanje mountain in the south of Malawi is a truly mystical place. It rises from the plain in very steep cliffs, to a mysterious plateau high in the clouds. Its near vertical walls of black rock have water pouring down them that glistens magically in…
Locusts, disasters and the other side of climate inequality.
Locusts, climate loss and inequality In the summer of 2020, when the world was reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, Kenya and other drought-stricken countries in East Africa were hit by a plague of locusts. It was a truly biblical moment. Millions of these voracious insects…
AS HUNGER SURGES, HERE ARE THREE WAYS INDIA CAN TACKLE ITS MASSIVE INEQUALITY
In our latest blog for Davos 2023, Amitabh Behar introduces the India supplement to Oxfam’s Davos report, which reveals how just 5% of Indians own more than 60% of the country’s wealth, while the bottom half of the population have 3% In the past three years the…
WELCOME TO THE ERA OF ‘GREEDFLATION’
Corporations that dominate food and fuel markets have been using the war and pandemic as a smokescreen to bump up their prices much more than their costs. Oxfam’s Alex Maitland explains how increased corporate profits have driven at least half of inflation. Open an economics…