By Lisa Horner, Research and Policy Adviser The High Level Panel on the post-2015 agenda met for the last time this week before it presents its recommendations to the UN Secretary General at the end of the month. We’re hopeful read more
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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
Ethnic inequality, and counting light
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
Video: Inequality debate at the Frontline Club
Last night saw a really lively panel on inequality at London’s Frontline journalists’ club, chaired by Paddy Coulter from OPHI and with contributions from Charles Sennot and Michael Moran of GlobalPost, Chris Johnes of Oxfam, Faiza Shaheen of the New Economics Foundation and me. Frontline blogged it, so read more
Post-2015-card from Monrovia
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
Responses to post-2015 proposal: (i) Ambition
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
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
Uncounted and unequal impacts of food price volatility
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
Fighting inequality to ‘bend the arc’ of history
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