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
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
Uncounted is honoured to have a guest post from Jomo Kwame Sundaram, a leading economist and the recently appointed FAO assistant director-general. Here, in light of our new report Born Equal, he considers the importance of inequality in driving read more
Let’s say we all agree that government accountability is important, and that data are important to ensure accountability. Do we then agree that acting accountably requires generating and publishing data? And if we do, why does data remain such read more
Among the governments of those countries with the most severe problems of child nutrition, there is an enormous diversity of approach and commitment. Today, the results are out of the Nutrition Barometer which aims to measure this (and will be read more
UNICEF have just released the new infant and child mortality estimates for 2011. The good news is a steep rise in progress last year, with total deaths of children under five falling from 7.6 million in 2010 to 6.9 million 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
So, the Child Development Index 2012: Progress, Challenges and Inequality is out. Launched in 2008 as a complement to the Human Development Index, the CDI is designed to capture progress in child well-being. The index combines measures of health, read more