Our man in Monrovia, Brendan Cox, files again… —————- So how universal is universal? In the context of the new development framework being discussed in Liberia this week does universal really mean every country must be covered by everything read more
It is with great pride that Uncounted accepted Blood and Milk’s award of the BAMBA for “Best Institutional Blog that should update more”, and took nearly as much pleasure to see Oxfam’s From Poverty to Power receive the BAMBA read more
Save UK Director of Policy and Advocacy Brendan Cox is in Monrovia, where the UN High Level Panel on post-2015 is meeting. He files the following… —————— As political, corporate and academic leaders meet this week in Liberia to read more
As you might expect, we’ve had a lot of response to the working proposal for a post-2015 development framework that we published last week. Three main points emerged, and I’ll summarise them in separate posts.. The great majority read more
Should we worry about data held in private, and if so when? I think we should, sometimes, while recognising that it’s not always clear-cut. We should also recognise that sometimes it is absolutely clear-cut – and we know for read more
You’d be pretty foolish to propose a complete post-2015 development framework right now, wouldn’t you? What with the High Level Panel still to have their second substantive meeting (in Monrovia, following London last November and with the Indonesian fixture read more
I’ve been in Cape Town, for the conference of the DFID-funded International Centre for Tax and Development, which brings together researchers from around the world to work on various research themes – including tax havens and corporate tax shenanigans, and read more
Food and hunger are near of the top of the development agenda, with the Olympic ‘hunger summit’ seeing a commitment that next year’s G8 would prioritise the issue too. Nevertheless, data weaknesses remain a severe impediment to effective policy. read more
Today is Universal Children’s Day: the date, 20 November marks the day on which the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, in 1959, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in read more
The writer Mark Weston has just published a fascinating and very readable book on West Africa, The Ringtone and The Drum: Travels in the world’s poorest countries. Mark has very kindly written the post below for Uncounted, taking a read more