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
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Reducing inequality to achieve the zero hunger challenge
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
Counting commitment: The Nutrition Barometer
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
The Child Development Index 2012
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
