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02/10/2020
Webinar: Strengthening Frameworks to Leave No One Behind During COVID-19 and Beyond
Leveraging Policy Data and Harmonized Survey Data to Protect Health and Economic Security: Strengthening Frameworks to Leave No One Behind During COVID-19 and Beyond webinar takes place on Friday 9 October at 13:00 UK time, featuring PSE's Professor David Gordon on the speaking panel.
COVID-19 has eroded progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and governments around the world are passing policies to respond to the threat of the virus at a rapid rate. As policymakers, civil society, international government organizations, and others respond to the on-going crisis, evidence-based tools are needed to ensure that action at scale supports rather than erodes progress towards achieving the SDGs. Panelists include:
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29/04/2020
Global/regional projections on the impact of COVID-19 on poverty
An overview of the various global and regional analysis on the impact of COVID-19 on poverty from the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty finds that millions more will be pushed into extreme poverty worldwide.
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08/04/2020
UN Warns Mass Hunger Facing West Africa Will Worsen as Coronavirus Takes Hold
A new United Nations food assessment of 17 West African countries - made before the potential impact of Covid-19 - finds more than 19 million people in the region will go hungry during the upcoming lean season.
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28/10/2019
UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
This year’s theme for the UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty focussed on child and family poverty. A key theme was prioritising access to quality social services.
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08/04/2019
World Employment and Social Outlook 2018
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has launched its annual flagship report on "World Employment and Social Outlook 2018" which includes an improved methodology for measuring working poverty.
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16/01/2014
Income gap ‘biggest threat to global community’
The chronic gap between the incomes of the richest and poorest citizens is seen as the risk that is most likely to cause serious damage globally in the coming decade, according to over 700 experts contributing to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks 2014 report.
The World Economic Forum is an independent international organisation that seeks to engage business, political, academic and other leaders of society in shaping global, regional and industry agendas. It convenes an annual gathering in the Swiss ski resort of Davos.
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05/12/2013
Call for new indicator on global poverty
A call has been made for a new headline indicator designed to measure progress towards eradicating global poverty in its many dimensions.
The case for the new indicator is made in the latest Development Co-operation Report published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, in a chapter written by Sabina Alkire (Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative - OPHI).
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05/09/2013
‘China effect’ on global inequality
Trends in China are the dominant factor in global inequality trends since the late 1980s, according to a study by academics at the Center for Global Development in Washington (USA). The paper proposes an alternative approach to measuring global inequality based on consumption patterns, which suggests that progress in reducing inequality has been slower than sometimes portrayed.
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02/08/2013
New model of global poverty dynamics
A new model of growth, inequality and poverty has been developed that allows forecasts to be made of both the scale and location of future poverty under different assumptions. The model is described in a paper by researchers for a United Nations development forum based in Brazil.
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12/07/2013
Measuring multi-dimensional poverty
A new method for measuring multi-dimensional poverty is rigorous, easy to unpack and use for policy, and also flexible enough for different contexts, according to a research centre at Oxford University which has pioneered the approach.
The Alkire Foster (or 'AF') method counts the overlapping or simultaneous deprivations that a person or household experiences in different indicators. People are identified as multi-dimensionally poor if the weighted sum of their deprivations is greater than or equal to a chosen poverty cut-off point. Having identified who is poor, the method then summarises information to show the deprivations experienced by those in poverty as a proportion of all possible deprivations in society.
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