How does poverty differ from economic inequality? Poverty is usually defined as not having the means to support basic nutrition, access to safe drinking water, shelter, education, and other needs.

Sub-Saharan Africa’s energy systems face an enormous challenge. The region currently has the lowest electricity generation capacity and experiences the most acute forms of energy poverty in the world.

The effects of climate change, now accelerating all over the world, include unpredictable changes in rainfall patterns bringing drought, heatwaves, and flooding.As extreme weather becomes more ...

Time to Care. Unpaid and underpaid care work and the global inequality crisis. This report outlines how global inequality is shockingly entrenched and vast, with the number of billionaires having ...

Inequality, Made in America. How Corporate America is Fueling our Inequality Crisis. For decades, the largest US corporations have been driving the inequality crisis, actively concentrating power and ...

Global inequality stems not just from what people have and don’t have—but what they're able to do with what they have. “The levels of inequality are horrendous," said Janet Fuentes, an activist from ...

It's time to build a human economy that benefits everyone, not just the privileged few. New estimates show that just eight men own the same wealth as the poorest half of the world. As growth benefits ...

Impact Investing: Who Are We Serving? A case of mismatch between supply and demand. This report from Oxfam and Sumerian Partners questions some of the assumptions around impact investment and ...

The impact of US sanctions on the Cuban population and women's lives Right to Live without a Blockade reveals the impact of nearly six decades of sanctions imposed by successive US governments on the ...

A new report reveals warehouse workers are suffering under oppressive working conditions amid record company profits. If you want to better understand working conditions at Amazon—one of the largest ...

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Oxfam examines what this means for the U.S. and the world. For years, Oxfam—along with advocates and activists around the world—has argued that extreme concentration of wealth is leading to extreme ...