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Stories, opinions and updates from across Oxfam’s work written by staff, partner organisations and guest authors. Explore reflections on global justice and inequality, insight from campaigns and communities, and ideas on how people can take action for change.

Two male hands in a handshake pose with a background of dollar bills floating down.

15 Jan 2024

How corporate power fuels global inequality
A desk with a sheet of paper showing a line graph with lots of peaks and troughs, a magnifying glass and coloured highlighters. There is also a pad with scrabble letters spelling C-H-A-N-G-E and a single letter C just above the G.

19 Oct 2023

Why economic growth alone will not end global poverty by 2030
A yellow signpost with the word Austerity printed in black below another signpost of a dollar sign.

12 Oct 2023

The World Bank and IMF must change to tackle poverty
An illustration of a group of women

11 Aug 2023

Why we must move beyond GDP to value women and the climate
An informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya showing cheap and flimsy buildings with high rise offices and apartments in the background

26 Jul 2023

Why the Palma ratio can accelerate efforts to tackle global inequality
Two people holding hands. A rainbow ribbon is wrapped around one person's wrist and on the other person's wrist is a rainbow watch with the word PRIDE painted in rainbow colours on the arm

30 Jun 2023

LGBTQIA+ people in the Philippines still need an anti‑discrimination law
A large white super yacht in a marina with a helicopter on a landing platform near the top of the yacht. In the foreground is a smaller white boat with the man on board looking at the super yacht.

18 Jan 2023

Why the super-rich pay lower taxes than most people
A group of women at a demonstration holding a large banner that reads "Tax billionaires, not workers! Wealth tax now!" The foreground sponsor logo is for the Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development.

16 Jan 2023

Taxing the super-rich has collapsed and it needs to change
A hand inside a white surgical glove is holding a vial of the mRNA vaccine.

18 Jan 2022

Why did billionaires get richer during Covid-19