Figures released by the government today confirm that the real incomes of 900,000 people fell below the poverty line in the year 2011/12, an increase in poverty equivalent to the size of Manchester...
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As the G8 leaders prepare to gather in Belfast and there are renewed calls to look beyond GDP, Oxfam Scotland releases its second Humankind Index (HKI) results, an attempt to do just that. ...
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Katharine Round is currently directing The Spirit Level documentary, a film based on the award-winning book of the same title, that looks at
how wealth gap in developed countries impacts on...
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Though the UK is the seventh richest country in the world, half a million households right here on our doorstep need emergency food aid.
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The use of foodbanks in the UK is on the rise, and over half a million people are now thought to be reliant on emergency food aid. Today, Church Action on Poverty and Oxfam are launching Walking...
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Anna McVicker writes:
This week four women from Oxfam's Building Livelihoods and Strengthening Communities group based in South Riverside Community Development Centre took the bus down...
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