Now updated to reflect the whole discussion, the Leadership Meeting and co-chairs’ statement, and the prospects for inequality in post-2015 and broader development processes. The global post-2015 consultation on inequality, led by UNICEF and UNWomen, has delivered its report to read more
Just came across a fascinating paper while looking for examples of how people have worked with household survey data to construct indicators of ethnolinguistic inequality. This uses Afrobarometer data, and light instead. I know, light. Ethnic Inequality Alberto 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
Uncounted is delighted to have a guest blog from Otaviano Canuto, World Bank Vice President and Head of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network, and a former economics professor at U. Sao Paolo. —– —– —– read more
There is now an impressively broad consensus in the technical discussions on post-2015, about the necessary centrality of inequality in the new development framework. And a lot of thinking is underway about how to move from technical consensus to read more
This is a guest post from Will Paxton, head of education, who has been at UNESCO’s launch of the 2012 Global Monitoring Report today, which presents new statistics that are a cause for concern… — There read more