sustainable development goal

January 22, 2016

Published by Isabel Whisson at Jan 22 2016

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Seven wishes from seven thought leaders for financial inclusion in 2016

2015 was an important year for the world of financial inclusion. Starting with the publication of the six randomised controlled trials results in January that sparked debate on the impacts of microcredit, the sector went on to celebrate (and question) an increase of 700 million people with access to financial services since 2011, with the publication of the 2014 Global Findex.

November 22, 2015

Published by Asif Kashem at Nov 22 2015

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general

general

Development: Whose fault is it anyway?

The millennium development goals (MDG) aspired to improve the lives of people in the developing world. There is a decline in the percentage of world’s population living in extreme poverty, but still a lot of the poor are living in middle income countries. There are more poor people living in India and in some of the Middle Eastern countries than in the whole of Africa. This scenario is also likely to evolve over the coming decade. Subsequently, we may see an entirely different world by the end of 2030.

September 12, 2015

Published by Rakib Avi at Sep 12 2015

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general, health

What’s the point of building schools when one in seven children remain undernourished?

Yet like any ambitious set of targets, not all the MDGs were fully met by many countries. Rather the goals worked as a framework upon which they could build their development policies and translate the policies into action. Let’s focus on one tiny target of a goal, yet one whose impact on the coming generations is most persisting: undernutrition. Undernutrition, a form of malnutrition, is a deficiency of calories of one or more essential nutrients. Two of the most used indicators to measure undernutrition are underweight and stunting.

October 9, 2013

Published by Faustina Pereira at Oct 09 2013

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equality, Staff blog

Bringing justice into the global development agenda

To help make the case for including justice and the rule of law as a goal in the post-2015 global development agenda, I was in New York from 24 to 28 September to participate in a number of events. Of these, there were three major events which bear a special mention.