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  1. 2022 HDCA Conference – Antwerp, Belgium

    The HDCA annual conference will take place from 19-22 September 2022.

    “Capabilities and Transformative Institutions”

    How can we organize today for the world of tomorrow? Covid-19 has taught us that we are not ready. We have re-discovered our common vulnerability – not only to a virus, but also to problems and difficulties arising from policy mismatch, institutional hiccups, authoritarian backlash and the effects of increasing national and international inequality. Divided we have stood, unable to act well  in concert. How can we improve the structures of living together and face the challenges ahead to build a more just and sustainable world? The HDCA Conference 2022 puts this question center stage.

    Institutions, social arrangements, or the structures which emerge from our social ways of living, have been considered from many perspectives through the range of disciplines that engage with the capability approach. The conference will provide an opportunity to let these various understandings speak to and learn from each other.

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

    …data. Confirmed speakers at the event on 24 September include: Colombia: Bruce Mac Master, Director, Department of Social Prosperity Germany: Gudrun Kopp, Parliamentary Secretary of State Mexico: Gonzalo Hernandez, Director of the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL) Philippines: Arsenio Balisacan, Minister of Socioeconomic Planning Morocco: Ahmed Lahlimi Alami, High Commissioner of Planning Nigeria: Shamsudd…

  3. 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…

  4. Latest news from the TG Education coordinators

    …cal overview of HDCA research in the area of education to a non-specialist readership. This could focus on human capital vs capability discourse, quality education or education beyond the millennium development goals. Anyone interested in submitting a proposal should contact the series editor, Khanam Virjee at Khanam.Virjee@tandf.co.uk 3. HDCA CfP: The upcoming HDCA conference 2015 will be held in Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. and the Ca…

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