The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2022

The Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) Index aims to monitor government policies and actions towards the goal of reducing inequality. The first CRI Index report was published in 2017 by UK-based organisations Development Finance International and Oxfam International. This fourth edition, released on October 11, 2022, was written by Jo Walker, Matthew Martin, Emma Seery, Nabil Abdo, Anthony Kamande, and Max Lawson, researchers working with Oxfam.  The research report tracks the impact of covid-19 on social inequality. It ranks the actions of 161 governments across the world on their “commitment to reducing inequality” during 2020-2022. The CRI marks government policies across three categories: public services (health, education and social spending), taxation and workers’ rights. Each category is measured across the three levels of: policy commitments, implementation of policies and their impact on inequality.The 77-page report is divided into four chapters: COVID-19 impact on inequality, government responses, and the role of the international financial institutions (IFIS) (Chapter 1); Fighting Inequality through public services: What progress is being made? (Chapter 2); Tax policy to fight inequality (Chapter 3); and Fighting inequality through labour rights and wages (Chapter 4). The report also contains recommendations and an annex listing the CRI Index rankings.