By Louise Holly, Senior Health Policy & Advocacy Adviser As my colleague Rica wrote in an earlier post, Save the Children’s State of the World’s Mothers report shines a spotlight on newborns this year. It includes the first-ever Birth Day read more
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Privately counted
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
Post-2015: Aim here
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
Failure to count
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
Sneak preview: Inequality during the MDGs – new findings
I probably shouldn’t do this, but it’s too good not to share. Jess Espey of our research team commissioned a study from the Young Lives project – a longitudinal study of children growing up in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh), Peru read more
The battle for global health – ‘movers and shakers’ vs ‘inequality warriors’
Progress on global health is a contentious subject. While some celebrate progress in key health indicators, others warn that gross global inequalities are still responsible for 20 million deaths every year. A group of experts and civil society that read more
