Davos is here again, so it’s time for Oxfam’s new report – here’s what it says

January 21, 2019
First of two posts to mark the start of Davos. Tomorrow Max Lawson digs into the links between inequality and public services. How do you follow a series of Killer Facts that have really got people’s attention? Every year the world’s political and economic leaders gather in Davos, and in recent years, Oxfam has done its best to persuade them,
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Is it time to move on from Stats and Numbers to Metaphor and Narrative?

November 23, 2016
Post Brexit and US elections, I’ve been doing some thinking about how we talk to people. It seems to me that, along with much of the aid and development sector, and quite a few other social change movements, we have been in thrall to the power of numbers and evidence. Everyone is a policy wonk these days. The trouble is,
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Please steal these killer facts: a crib sheet for advocacy on aid, development, inequality etc

July 1, 2014
Regular FP2P readers will be heartily sick of used to me banging on about the importance of ‘killer facts‘ in NGO advocacy and general communications. Recently, I was asked to work with some of our finest policy wonks to put together some crib sheets for Oxfam’s big cheeses, who are more than happy for me to spread the love to you
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Killer factcheck: ‘Women own 2% of land’ = not true. What do we really know about women and land?

March 21, 2014
Cheryl Doss, a feminist economist at Yale University argues that (as with ‘70% of the world’s poor are women‘ ) we need to stop using the unfounded ‘women own 2% of the world’s farmland’ stat, and start using some of the real numbers that are emerging (while also demanding much better gender data). For advocates, nothing is better than having
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Anatomy of a killer fact: the world’s 85 richest people own as much as the poorest 3.5 billion

January 31, 2014
Ricardo Fuentes (@rivefuentes) reflects on a killer fact (85 individuals own as much wealth as half the world’s population) that made a big splash last week, and I add a few thoughts at the end. Last week we released a report on the relationship between the growing concentration of income and biases in political decision making. “Working for the  Few”
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How to write Killer Facts and Graphics – what are your best examples?

June 21, 2012
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Bailouts v aid v climate change – $ reveals priorities

December 28, 2008
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US elections: killer facts, what happens now? And Palin the poet

December 26, 2008
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