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  1. WEBINAR: Facing Inequality: Multidimensional Poverty in the U.S

    …nd she has provided research papers to several institutions, including the International Monetary Fund and the World Institute for Development Economics Research. In 2012, she was awarded the Nancy and Richard Ruggles Prize by the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, which is given for the best research paper by a young scholar under the age of 35. She has also received the Ivan Allen Jr. Legacy Award at Georgia Tech, was a…

  2. WEBINAR – Gender and Energy Access: Economic empowerment

    …iterature study showing that energy entrepreneurship can transform women’s lives and captures key lessons learned on including women in energy supply as entrepreneurs to increase access to energy for all. Read more: Building the Evidence Base for Women’s Empowerment and Entrepreneurship to Improve Energy Interventions’ Effectiveness The publication “Supporting last-mile women energy entrepreneurs: What works and what does not” examines, analyses a…

  3. Multidimensional poverty measurement in the post-2015 development context – live webcast of side-event at the UN General Assembly

    …e post-2015 development goals. The MPI2015+ would often be complemented by national MPIs, as in Mexico and Colombia, whose indicators reflect national priorities and contexts. The Network will echo calls for a ‘data revolution’ to undergird multidimensional poverty measures with better and more frequent data. Confirmed speakers at the event on 24 September include: Colombia: Bruce Mac Master, Director, Department of Social Prosperity Germany: Gudr…

  4. CFP: Conference and Workshop on “Ethics for a Broken World”

    …in decision-making for the future and in philosophical ethics. Workshop on world-building and the broken world The conference is accompanied by an interdisciplinary workshop in which the participants will meet professionals from media and other creative industries. The aim will be to join forces to flesh out the broken world as it is presented in Mulgan’s book to the point where the world would be suitably concretely defined to serve as the story…

  5. NEW BOOK: Somewhere to Live: Rising to the global urban land and housing challenge

    …poverty during recent decades, finding somewhere decent and affordable to live is proving increasingly difficult in urban areas around the world. This is not by accident, but by design, since the forms of economic management that have held sway for four decades are intended to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a small elite, excluding the vast majority from meeting their basic needs. They force countless vulnerable, yet enterprising gr…

  6. ¿Qué son el DH y el EC?

    …intuición básica del paradigma del Desarrollo Humano (HD), que se ha construido en décadas de trabajo sobre crecimiento con equidad, necesidades básicas y economía del bienestar. El paradigma de DH emergió en la década de 1990 y se convirtió en la visión principal del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD). Este enfoque centra su atención en las personas, y la calidad de sus vidas pasa a tener prioridad en las decisiones a cual…

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