So I'm in South Korea this week, and yesterday heard a presentation on 'Green Growth' from a senior government official. Korea wants to stay at at the head...
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 would a good outcome from Rio+20 look like?
A genuine question, honest. Triggered by today's earnest plea urging world leaders to get their act together and agree something - anything - for the Rio+20...
Chairs of UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on post-MDGs announced
We've known for a while that David Cameron will be one of the co-chairs of the UN Secretary-General's panel on what comes after the MDGs, when they...
Cash still counts
Even though we're all excited about mobile money these days, it's useful to be reminded that cash still matters. A recent evaluation study in Kenya run by...
Christmas tree, jigsaw or bullseye? A rough guide to post-2015 frameworks
The last week or so has been truly post-2015-tastic, not least here on GD. There are so many ideas flying around that it’s hard to untangle what people are...
Putting inequality into the post-2015 picture
There’s a growing consensus among the countries, UN agencies and civil society organisations involved in discussions on the post-2015 development agenda that...
Danger: Global Cupcake takeover of International Women’s Day
Since when did cupcakes become the international symbol of womankind? Because cupcake themed international women's day events are being promoted everywhere...
Wanted: big ideas
So the other day I was asked what I thought the ‘big debates’ were in development. A dream question. But the more I thought about it, the more I found...
Arguments about Aid and the Welfare Bill
Listening to the debates on the UK's Welfare Bill this morning, I was struck by the similarities between this debate and the endless arguments about whether...
Inequality, my grandparents and my children
So I try to be very professional and only blog about numbers and Big Global Issues and the like. But, you know, I do have a life too and sometimes it...
What would a post-2015 agreement on development actually be for?
Pardon the existential angst, but as I'm about to spend the next few years of my life obsessing about what comes after the MDGs, and as the same question is...
Creating Consensus on a post-2015 framework for development
Any global framework for development which is agreed after 2015 will be a political deal between states. This paper looks at recent trends in policy and politics in emerging economies and traditional donors to assess where a consenus might lie. It suggests some principles for a post-2015 agreement which emerge from recent policy developments
Putting the ‘sustainable’ and the ‘development’ into the Sustainable Development Goals
A few months ago, the Colombian government created what passed for excitement among international climate and development types, with its proposal for...
A post-2015 Global Development Agreement: why, who what?
Paper from ODI and UNDP, authored by Claire Melamed and Andy Sumner, summarising the evidence on the impact of the MDGs, and looking at current trends in poverty and in global governance that will affect the shape and the scope of any future agreement on global development.
Why inequality matters
Whatever else the Occupy protests (over 900 at the last count), have done, they have propelled the issue of inequality on to the front pages and into...
Tony Blair on development and leadership
On Wednesday ODI was host to Tony Blair, giving a speech on 'leadership' and the work of his Africa Governance Initiative. There were, of course, predictable...
Robin Hood tax round up: what’s the argument about?
Is the FTT a good idea? You'd think that since we've been arguing about this for the best part of 30 years now, there would be some consensus. Oh no. The...
What is the population problem?
Just before I went off on my long summer break (very nice thank you), I did a podcast on the Guardian website about population. It's well worth listening to...
Yes but who does the laundry? The World Bank on women and domestic work
The World Bank's 'Development Impact' blog has a fascinating post on the relationship between low-skilled migration and high-skilled women's work. Increasing...
Is the ‘mobile phone revolution’ in Africa really for everybody?
On Monday I gave a talk at 'Africa Gathering' - a great event full of serious mobile communications geeks (in a good way). I'm as much of a technological...
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