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
Tag Archives: poverty location
A rude awakening: Why Africa’s leaders should worry about cities
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
Born Equal: Why challenging inequality must be at the heart of post-2015
As the High Level Panel on post-2015 meets in London, our new report Born Equal shows that the effective income inequality per child is double that of households in general – and perhaps more worryingly, we find this inequality has grown read more
It shouldn’t happen here?
This week, Save the Children launched what the Guardian referred to as ‘its first domestic fundraising campaign‘, seeking £500,000 to help fight child poverty in the UK. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the response has been mixed – but I’d like to read more
Horizon 2025: Fragile projections?
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
