The Overseas Development Institute have published Horizon 2025, analysing the ‘relevance’ of donors and agencies for world that follows their global projections of the location of poverty. While the report is thought-provoking, the basis for the projections does not seem read more
Not everything or everyone that is uncounted reflects marginalisation and a lack of power. On the flip side, the story reverses and what is uncounted by design reflects the presence, not the absence of power. But inequality is read more
In the Child Development Index 2012, we compare our findings with those of the UNDP’s Human Development Index. Since the CDI began life in 2008 as an attempt to produce a child-focused equivalent, the parallels are unsurprising. Also unsurprising read more
Just a quick one on the difference between countries’ current performance level, and their rate of progress. There are two maps in the Child Development Index 2012 that we launched today. One of them has countries coloured according to read more
So, the Child Development Index 2012: Progress, Challenges and Inequality is out. Launched in 2008 as a complement to the Human Development Index, the CDI is designed to capture progress in child well-being. The index combines measures of health, read more
Why are the life chances of some children so much worse than others? Why does your passport dictate so much from before you are born – the ‘lottery of life’? Why is life so much better, for example, read more