The Class Ceiling
By Max Lawson Years ago when I had just joined Oxfam as a young policy adviser, I had written a policy paper on the subject of World Bank Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) which were at the time plans that all developing countries had to…
The Revolutionary Threat of the Public Park
By Max Lawson Every day I take my dog, Marx, for a walk in our local park and around the sports fields behind it. Large lime trees, planted a century ago by far-sighed Victorians, tower above you forming a sort of natural cathedral in places….
IS GREEN GROWTH A CONVENIENT LIE? – with Jason Hickel, Economic Anthropologist
By Elizabeth Njambi How fighting inequality and beating climate change means we must end our addiction to economic growth and fast. We’re asking: How are inequality, climate breakdown and growth linked? Why is green growth an impossibility? If rich nations must stop growing, what does…
Wartime fiscal measures on the pandemic profiteers could raise enough money to buy vaccines for everyone and fund for the recovery
By Anthony Kamande. 2020 was a tumultuous year as the world economy experienced an unprecedented downturn not seen in generations, and the health system even in the most developed countries got overwhelmed and crumbled due to a surging coronavirus. Billions of lives have been upended…
Creating Vaccine Billionaires instead of Vaccinating Billions
By Anthony Kamande The wealth of nine new COVID-19 vaccine billionaires would be enough to vaccinate everyone in all low-income countries or all of sub-Saharan Africa. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Moderna, BioNTech and CanSino, the makers of successful Covid-19 vaccines, have created…
MUSIC AS POLITICAL POWER – With PilAto, Zambian Music Artist Sensation
By Elizabeth Njambi [This episode contains great music!] His beautiful music reaches millions. He’s topped the charts in the African continent. He’s winning change. He’s even been arrested for his music. He is PilAto – real name Fumba Chama – the Zambian music artist and…
WHY WE NEED TO DREAM – Award-Winning Author Gary Younge on MLK, Inequality and Race
By Elizabeth Njambi A remarkable conversation with a great thinker and giant of journalism who has covered the great stories of our time. We ask what can be learnt from MLK about the fight against inequality? What holds back change and what is the role…
Will this be the first time in recorded history inequality has risen everywhere at once?
Didier Jacobs Senior Policy Advisor, Oxfam America January 26 2021 The pandemic is expected to widely increase income inequality within countries., say the IMF, World Bank, and the OECD. An Oxfam survey of 295 economists in 79 countries confirms it; 87% of respondents expect income…
2021: YEAR OF HOPE? – With Climate Leader Christiana Figueres (& Nafkote Dabi!)
By Elizabeth Njambi 2020 ends. 2021 begins. How can we make sure this will be a defining year in the fight against climate breakdown? What has COVID taught us? And is it possible to be optimistic? We talk to Christiana Figueres – the global climate…
WILL A BIDEN ADMINISTRATION FIGHT INEQUALITY? – With Stephanie Kelton, “Rock Star” Economist
By Elizabeth Njambi Just what does the election of US President-elect Joe Biden mean for the fight against inequality, in the US and around the world? How might billionaires be feeling? What’s it going to take to put the right policies into place? What can…