Max Lawson

Head of Inequality Policy, Oxfam International

Max Lawson is Head of Inequality Policy at Oxfam International. He has worked for Oxfam since 2002, firstly in policy support to country programmes, and then in advocacy and campaigns. As part of his country support he has visited and worked with over 25 country programmes across the world.

Articles by Max Lawson

1. Building a more equal world

   Max Lawson

   Economic development — Global

   Coronavirus threatens to push already damaging levels of inequality to new extremes. Post-pandemic, we must go beyond lifting people out of poverty and tackle the deeper structural causes of inequality at all levels

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   Article

   16 June 2021

   SDGs: 1 10

   

2. How to reduce inequality

   Max Lawson

   Social wellbeing

   Despite policy commitments to reduce poverty, the gap between the world’s richest and poorest grows ever wider. How can we shift the way economies work to reward people for the work they do, not the wealth they own?

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   Article

   19 February 2018

   SDGs: 1 8 10