UNICEF have been doing some great work on inequality recently, and have just released a new report with lots of numbers on global and regional inequality...
Claire Melamed
Claire Melamed is Head of the Growth, Poverty and Inequality Programme at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). The programme does research and policy analysis on how economic growth can be more effective in reducing poverty and inequality. She has worked for the UN in Mozambique, taught at SOAS and the Open University, and worked for ten years in NGOs including ActionAid and Christian Aid.
What’s good for girls is good for global finance
Horrific new data released by the latest census in India and analysed on the Guardian's development blog shows that things are getting worse for girls. The...
RCTs – not so new, after all?
Quiz time. Who said that policy makers should be ready for: ...an experimental approach to social reform, an approach in which we try out new programmes...
What do we want? Jobs!
This post appeared on the Guardian's Poverty Matters blog yesterday. See the original for some insightful comments. A recent survey asking people in...
What do we really know about poverty and inequality?
There's an iron rule of development research which says that when two or more researchers are gathered together at some point they'll start complaining about...
To MDG or not to MDG?
Which is the title of a presentation I've just given at a conference on global health and the MDGs in Copenhagen. The powerpoint's not up yet, but the main...
Aid – what is it good for (and at)?
Just because something, like improving political systems, for example, is important to development, does that mean it's the business of development...
The country where a woman without a man….doesn’t exist
A country where a woman who has no man to speak for her literally doesn't exist as far as the authorities are concerned - and can't claim benefits, can't get...
Mandelson the aid expert…
In an article in the Daily Mail today, Peter Mandelson takpes a pop at the Labour Government's aid policy. He says: ‘I’m not anti-aid, but if you ask me...
Value for money? Whose values, how much money?
I've been moonlighting on other blogs this week. First up was round two on results - I posted here on GD a few weeks ago about what a results agenda could do...
Happy 100th International Women’s Day
There's a fantastic array of blog postings to mark the 100th International Women's Day today, and twitter is abuzz with stories, links and random celebrations...
Aid and the Daily Mail tendency
I've spent too much of my week arguing that yes we should give aid and yes it can work. The launch of DFID's Aid Reviews launched another round of...
Aid to India? Er…I’m not sure
Last week was aid to India week. There were three pieces on the subject on the Guardian website, plus the predictable ‘why oh why’ articles in the Daily Mail...
Cable Cars for Development?
Step forward today's candidate for least likely development hero of the week. It's the cable car. Traffic in some of the big cities of the developing world...
What if you have a mobile phone but you can’t read?
What will happen if mobile phone use carries on expanding at its current rate in Africa, but literacy rates don't improve? This graph, using data from the...
In Praise of Results
There’s much anxiety in development-land these days. New, frightening beasts like ‘results’ and ‘value for money’ are stalking the defenceless and helpless...
The West Wing (oh, and 60,000 poor people) guide to development policy
The West Wing: fictional TV series about liberal American President. Voices of the Poor: rigorous research project involving over 60,000 people in 60...
What’s changed at DFID? Reading the signs
The Coalition government, just like the last Labour government, have promised to hit the magic number of 0.7% - that's the proportion of the UK's income that...
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