Just Cities for Children: Voices from Urban Slums
Just Cities for Children: Voices from Urban Slums highlights World Vision’s experience in supporting children to express their ideas for a better city to key decision makers on a global … Continue reading
Even it Up: Time to end extreme inequality
This report [from Oxfam] delves into the causes of the inequality crisis and looks at the concrete solutions that can overcome it. Drawing on case studies from around the world … Continue reading
Aid and tax in Ethiopia: is there a crowding out effect?
Based on the Ethiopian case and on other available evidence, the argument of a crowding out effect to justify lower aid levels seems misplaced. Instead aid can be beneficial to … Continue reading
Understanding Latin America’s Financial Inclusion Gap
This paper analyzes Latin America’s Financial Inclusion Gap, the difference between the average financial inclusion for Latin America and the corresponding average for a set of comparator countries. At the … Continue reading
The killing-fields of inequality
There are at least three quite different kinds of inequality, and they are all destructive of human lives and of human societies…The first is inequality of health and death, what … Continue reading
Did Global Poverty just fall a lot, quite a bit or not at all?
Andy Sumner – The future of aid is related – to some extent – to trends in global poverty and where the poor live. But new price data is causing … Continue reading
The decline of Lao civil society
It is paradoxical that while most interpretations of civil society include autonomy from the state as a central characteristic, the groups most widely recognised as civil society are those legally … Continue reading
