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Amitabh Behar Born in 1972 India living in Nairobi, Kenyais, the CEO of Oxfam International, and former executive director of the National Foundation for India and Oxfam India.

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Our broken economies are lining the pockets of billionaires and big business at the expense of ordinary men and women. No wonder people are starting to question whether billionaires should even exist.

By definition, civil society has to work within a framework of non-violence.

The gap between rich and poor can't be resolved without deliberate inequality-busting policies, and too few governments are committed to these.

Contesting power [...] is inevitable in the pursuit of justice and dignity for the marginalised and excluded.

I just don’t understand why international NGOs need hundreds of people sitting in the North with huge teams to support Southern NGOs on the ground. Most of the resources get tied to these headquarters and little goes to the South. Real decision-making about what needs to be done and how is still decided by HQ-based Northern experts.

They spend billions of hours cooking, cleaning and caring for children and the elderly. Unpaid care work is the 'hidden engine' that keeps the wheels of our economies, businesses and societies moving. It is driven by women who often have little time to get an education, earn a decent living or have a say in how our societies are run, and who are therefore trapped at the bottom of the economy.

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