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Even it up campaign
Catherine Olier Nairobi- 2ndDecember 2014
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INEQUALITY IN AFRICA
Growth but for whom?
WAF fastest pace of growth expansion inthe continent, above 7%.
Sierra Leone: 16.3 % growth rate in 2013
High level of inequality
Africa: 2nd most unequal region after LAC16 billionaires in sub-Saharan Africa - 358
million people living in extreme poverty
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WHY DO WE CARE?
It affects efforts on
poverty reduction
It reinforces other
types of inequality
It affects peoples lives
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WHAT CAUSES INEQUALITY?
Market fundamentalism
Political capture
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WHAT SOLUTIONS?
Public services
Fair taxation
Minimum wages and
decent work
Active citizenship
Social protection
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EVENT IT UP CAMPAIGN
OBJECTIVES Help to mobilise millions of people across the world to create a
movement for change
Shift the terms of the debate to end market fundamentalism (public
services, gender, political capture)
Obtain policy changes (taxation)
5 years
About 25 countries and growing
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CONCRETE ACTIVITIES
1. Studies to show the scale of the inequality problem and itsdrivers
2. Advocacy towards key decision-makers at local, national,
regional and international levels
3. Raising awareness and mobilising people for activecitizenship
4. Media to put taxation in the public debate and change
perception
5. Offline and online products (for social media, petitions,videos etc)
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AT GLOBAL LEVEL:
A WORLD TAX SUMMIT
versus
NOW: Base Erosion and Profit Shiftingreform (OECD/G20)
34 to 44 countries only including tax havens
Strong influence by the business
No equal representation for developing
countries
JULY 2015: World Tax Summit (in margin of
the FFD conference in Addis) to
o acknowledge tax dodging by MNCs not
entirely solved with BEPS
o re-open the tax debate for a more
visionary and fair design;
o create in the future a global tax body to
negotiate global tax rules in an
inclusive and transparent way.
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AT REGIONAL LEVEL: MORE COORDINATION
TO AVOID RACE TO THE BOTTOM
1. Tax harmonisation
and race to the
bottom (UEMOA,
ECOWAS, SADC,
EAC)
2. Illicit Financial
Flows (AU,
NEPAD)
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AT NATIONAL LEVEL:
PROGRESSIVE TAXATION
Promo te redis t r ibut ive po l ic ies andpract ices that redistr ibu te
revenues (tackl ing inequal i ty once)
and inc rease fund ing for essent ia l ,
f ree publ ic services (tackl ing
inequal i ty tw ice)
Examples: progressive fiscal reforms,
streamlining tax exemptions,
especially in the extractive industriessector, combat harmful practices, look
at IMF tax advises in countries
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AT NATIONAL LEVEL:
PROGRESSIVE TAXATION
NIGERfollow-up of
Areva case
+ study on
drivers of
inequality
KENYA
Citizens
awareness
raising andtraining on
governance
and budget
NIGERIA
Platform of NGOs on
fair taxation, reducing
tax burden of women
in informal economy,
study on drivers ofinequality
BRAZIL
Campaign for political and
tax reforms and look at
Brazils role in international
context (G20, BRICS, post-2015
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The people have been left behind for too long, a fact that has
already sparked popular protests and outrage around the world.
Outrage that elected governments are representing the interests of
the powerful few, and neglecting their responsibility to ensure adecent future for everyone.
Outrage that corporate giants are able to dodge their taxes and get
away with paying poverty wages.
Many of you w i l l won der whether there is anyth ing we can do to
change this? The answer is very f i rmly yes...
WINNIE BYANYIMA
Executive Director, Oxfam
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THANK YOU
Catherine Olier Mai / Juin 2014
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