Winnie Byanyima
Corporations are driving down wages and working conditions across the globe to maximize returns for their shareholders. They use their power and influence to ensure the rules align with their interests - no matter the cost.
We don't want to tell young girls and boys that the odds are stacked against them from the start. Instead, we could tell them that with passion, conviction, and determination we can build a better future. This future is possible by redesigning our economy to truly reward hard work rather than wealth.
Global governments should start seriously talking about the creation of a World Tax Authority with the mission to ensure that tax systems will deliver for the public interests in all countries.
Oxfam believes that any global talks to reform tax rules must include all countries, including the poorest.
Progressive taxation can offset the effect of growing inequality.
Taxing companies, particularly successful multinational companies, is one of the most progressive forms of taxation.
Developing countries are losing significant tax revenues through corporate tax dodging.
The conniving, rich oilmen that were so desperate to prevent and frustrate the Paris Agreement found cheerleaders in Mr. Trump and his party. They choose to protect their profits from a flailing fossil fuel industry over human lives and a clean, inclusive future for us all.
The Paris Agreement threw people of the world a lifeline, and the United States played a vital role in getting us there, not least by working closely with China to clear the decks to a global deal.
Tackling the extreme gap between the rich and the poor and tackling climate change is part of the same struggle.
Climate change is the biggest threat to our chances of winning the fight against hunger.Collection: Fighting
By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.Collection: Girl
In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme inequality.Collection: Inspiring
It is staggering that in the 21st century, half of the world's population - that's three and a half billion people - own no more than a tiny elite whose numbers could all fit comfortably on a double-decker bus.Collection: Numbers
A few years ago the idea that extreme poverty was harmful was on the fringes of the economic and political debate. But having made the case we are now seeing an emerging consensus among business leaders, economic leaders, political leaders and even faith leaders.Collection: Years
We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.Collection: Rights
Another world is possible, without the 1 percent.Collection: World
The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering.Collection: Scales
What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.Collection: Rights
Giving a minimum wage reduces inequality significantly.Collection: Inspiring