Business and human rights event in the European Parliament, March 2017By Jérôme Chaplier, Coordinator of the European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) and Isabelle Brachet, Europe Advocacy...
This is one seriously exciting moment for ActionAid as we celebrate the sign off of a new international strategy: Action for Global Justice! It’s particularly exciting because of the feminist...
The international campaign for taxes on financial speculation is on the brink of a major European milestone that could further boost momentum in the United States.When I was cutting my teeth in...
The billionaire class is out of control. Unless we rein them in very soon, we will never be able to end global poverty or meet the Sustainable Development Goals. This is the key finding of a report...
ActionAid’s new report explores how industrialisation can drive the creation of more and better jobs. The report comes at a crucial time, when policy makers around the world are coming to realise...
Much of the recent debate on inequality has focused on the big picture of how a few individuals (62, in Oxfam’s January paper) have the same wealth as half the world’s population. As usefully...
The high level of economic inequality seen in the world today is surpassing that of nearly 100 years ago, when European colonial rule, regressive tax policies and unregulated financial activities...
There is a date that marks the rise of global inequality. The rich have always held their grip on the levers of power, but the transformation of our economies, institutions and societies to align...
ActionAid is a development organization, working to end poverty and defend the human rights of marginalized and impoverished people. And we are proud to be precisely that. But to accomplish our...
Traditionally, economists have considered land (including natural resources on land), labor, capital and entrepreneurship as the primary factors of production. It has been assumed that these four...
