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
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
Sometimes you wonder how much evidence is needed on the damage that inequality does to child development, before policy responds accordingly and with the necessary urgency. The process to identify a post-2015 successor to the Millennium Development Goals provides read more
A first for the blog – a guest post. The author is Jonathan Glennie, of ODI and formerly of Christian Aid (all the best people, etc and so on). The post looks at a simple statistical approach that read more
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