As part of ODI’s research into poverty trajectories, conducted for USAID through the LEO activity, Lucy Scott, ODI Research Fellow, has been collecting life histories from female and male household heads in Kole District in northern Uganda. Life histories can reveal important information about the resilience (or lack thereof) of individuals and their households.
Read MoreWho is sitting at the table and what is on the menu? The G20 Summit in Antalya and opportunities to use the SDGs to make the world a safer place for all
Pro-poor(est) economic growth would require a more incisive international cooperation on economic and financial issues, for instance through investment in critical infrastructure for the poor and more stringent regulation on decent employment. The G20 could make a difference providing a platform for countries to discuss coordinated solutions to these problems.
Read MoreGetting to zero poverty by 2030 - an Infographic by CPAN
This infographic CPAN aims to give an overall picture of the complexity and the dynamics that can trap people in a situation of chronic poverty, and to suggest the cross-cutting policy areas that need to be taken into account when aiming at tackling chronic poverty, stop impoverishment, build sustained escape from poverty.
Read MoreIf we are going to achieve the SDGs then shouldn’t the rich consume less?
In some ways, the SDGs are refreshingly ambitious. Finally the global institutions are getting serious about eradicating poverty. They even grapple with reducing inequality between and within all nations. Unlike the MDGs they’ve even remembered to include a decent consideration of environmental limits and climate change. So why it is that the more I read of the targets that sit underneath some of the goals then the more confused I become?
Read MoreShare the burden! Why unpaid domestic and care work should be top of the agenda
In 2014 the OECD Development Centre produced a policy brief arguing that throughout the world women spend between two and ten times as much time on unpaid care work as men; and that this gender inequality is the missing link in explaining gender gaps in levels of employment, wages and job quality. For the poorest women in the poorest countries this gender inequality is magnified as the burden of unpaid domestic and care work is relatively greater, and especially so if we include within it domestic food production. We need to put unpaid care and domestic work firmly on the agenda whenever we talk about the economic empowerment of women. And then we need to find ways to value, support it, and share it out.
Photograph: Panos Pictures
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