The media is running with Oxfam’s annual ‘shocking’ statistic on wealth. This year “the richest 62 people have the same … Continue reading “Oxfam’s global inequality statistics: don’t believe the anti-capitalist hype”

In response to an article for The Tablet on Oxfam’s wealth inequality figures, Mr Fuentes-Nieva, Head of Research at Oxfam, … Continue reading “Practical solutions to poverty (and inequality) – and why Oxfam refuses to consider them”

In recent months the global elite, including the Catholic head of the Bank of England Mark Carney, have joined Pope … Continue reading “Oxfam’s figures are as meaningless as its extrapolations are misleading”

Fairly often the facts get in the way of a good meme. The cricketer Stuart Broad has angered a host … Continue reading “A tale of two claims: one Broadly right, the other by Peston broadly wrong”

Global capitalism has eradicated poverty and generated prosperity in the developing world at an unprecedented rate. You might imagine that … Continue reading “Beware Oxfam’s dodgy statistics on wealth inequality”

Zero-hours contracts. High prices. Benefit cuts. Unemployment. Childcare costs. According to the international development charity Oxfam, the combination of these … Continue reading “Oxfam are one club golfers – for them more government is always the answer”

When I began working on poverty issues, I had the naïve idea that a child poverty activist was somebody who … Continue reading “What is the ‘poverty industry’?”

A report recently published by Oxfam received a huge amount of attention. The report argued that world food prices will … Continue reading “Oxfam recycles Malthus”