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
NGO question: How to communicate to the wider public that tricky economic justice issue, in a way that really cuts through? The issues around tax and illicit flows are a case in point. People have tried all sorts in read more
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
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
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
Save the Children has a briefing out today on the potential for business to contribute to the post-2015 development framework. Below is a guest post from David McNair, our head of growth and equity, setting out the main points. read more
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
It really matters, for all sorts of things from fair taxation to the prevention of corruption, that people are unable to hide their ownership of major assets or income streams. Could the post-2015 development framework provide an opportunity to read more
Not everything or everyone that is uncounted reflects marginalisation and a lack of power. On the flip side, the story reverses and what is uncounted by design reflects the presence, not the absence of power. But inequality is read more
Why are the life chances of some children so much worse than others? Why does your passport dictate so much from before you are born – the ‘lottery of life’? Why is life so much better, for example, read more