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| NEW REPORT: Please click here to access the Executive Summary and the Full Report |
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| The funding gap is at least $100 billion – here's a big idea to help make up the difference |
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| Combating climate change will cost tens of billions of dollars a year. But where will the money come from? |
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Stamp Out Poverty campaigns for additional sources of finance to bridge the massive funding gap required to bring the world’s poorest people out of poverty. We are a network of more than 40 UK organisations, including Oxfam, Save the Children, Christian Aid and War on Want, pioneering initiatives such as UNITAID, which has already raised $1 billion for healthcare in developing countries.
Additional, long-term finance is needed to pay for the Millennium Development Goals to provide clean water, healthcare and education to the poorest parts of the world. A situation compounded by the financial crisis squeezing traditional aid budgets.
Our flagship campaign is for the Currency Transaction Levy (CTL). Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow provides an excellent introduction to our work in the 10-minute film, Can Pay, Should Pay. Click here to watch it now.
Today's proposal for a CTL has its roots in the work of Nobel Laureate James Tobin. You can find out more about the proposal's history here.
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Flying start for Robin Hood Tax campaign:
Actor Bill Nighy and writer/director Richard Curtis helped launch the Robin Hood Tax campaign today, appearing on both BBC and ITV new programmes. Together they have made a brilliant 3 minute film, starring Bill as the banker
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How UK/French support could mean real change:
In a month in which Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy published a joint editorial in the Wall Street Journal singing the praises of a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) we reflect on a month that has brought our issue into the mainstream
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Brown Champions Tax on Banks:
After 10 years of campaigning, a day some thought impossible has arrived: the UK government - and Gordon Brown himself - are calling for a tax on the banking sector
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