The first of the SDGs challenges us to end poverty by 2030: join this day-long event to discuss how.
Photo Credit: Woman selling potatoes in Ecuador, Dottie Day
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 MoreUpcoming conference on Pro-poorest Growth
The Asian Development Bank and the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network are pleased to announce the conference: Incorporating Pro-poorest Growth in the SDGs: Moving beyond the MDGs. Manila, Philippines 26-27 April 2016. As a forum for discussion for renowned academic, researchers, practitioners and policy makers, the conference aims to present the latest research evidence and to generate a series of practical and relevant recommendations for policy makers on pro-poorest growth.
Photo Credit: A child peeks through the window of a classroom - Shreeshitalacom Lower Secondary School. Kaski, Nepal. Photo: © Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank - Photo ID: SDM-NP-058 World Bank
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Share 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.
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Read MoreEnding Chronic Poverty by 2030: What is Required for Implementation?
With the post-2015 era approaching, debates surrounding poverty have seriously started to consider what makes for quality growth in order to eliminate extreme poverty, rather than just reduce it. Zero poverty cannot be realised without tackling chronic poverty. However, due to lack of data and evidence, poverty-reduction policies hardly consider the particular situations and characteristics of the chronically poor. In order to fill such research gaps, this paper examines the trends and characteristics of chronic poverty in rural Cambodia between 2004 and 2010.
Photograph: Ippei Tsuruga
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