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  1. WEBINAR: PARTICIPATORY WELLBEING FRAMEWORKS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND OVER THE LIFE COURSE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

    …20th January 2021 / 9.00-10.00 (UK) There is a growing movement across the world to make better use of wellbeing measures to guide policy. This stems from the realisation that reliance on economic indicators, such as income, GDP, and unemployment, may not be adequately capturing the aspects of life that people value. This is of particularly high relevance in our increasingly globalised world, where policies and programs are often developed and imp…

  2. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Co-Winner of Grawemeyer World Order Award

    …nd Capabilities. She was chair of the 2007 HDCA annual conference, held in New York. Lawson-Remer was recently a fellow in Stanford University’sCenter for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Randolph is an associate professor emerita of economics at the University of Connecticut. The trio used the United Nations’ 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Cultural and Social Rights as a basis for…

  3. Extended CFP deadline- A World United: Allies in Ethical Development

    …, including alliances between and across nation states, corporations, multinational groups, NGOs, etc. A World United, the eleventh congress of the International Development Ethics Association, will be held conjointly with the seventh conference on development, Collective Action and Development, of GREThA (Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et Appliquée). All participants are welcome to attend both conference sessions. The two conferences w…

  4. 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…

  5. The right to science | UN general comment | Ideas for collaboration

    …e me in case you’re interested in the idea (in case, here’s a first useful reading: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6418/975 ). For discussing the appeal and other possible initiatives we plan to organize a Zoom call– please contact me in case you want to join and ‘meet us’ online. I hope some of you will: we need bright minds willing to spend some of their time in promoting the ‘right to science’ beyond standard academic activities. We…

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