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  1. 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…

  2. Overcoming Intolerance: Nussbaum and Her Critics conference

    …day interrogating her recent The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age (Harvard University Press, 2012). Nussbaum argues that we can rise about the politics of fear and toward a more open and inclusive future by expanding our capacity for empathetic imagination and establishing a consistent ethic of decency and civility building off of her past work. Conference speakers include Thom Brooks (Law, Durham), Clar…

  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. What are HD & the CA?

    …freedom. Do people have opportunities to function well as human beings and live flourishing human lives? The CA does not give a blueprint on how to act to transform the world so that all may live flourishing human lives, let alone to give a blueprint of what it means to flourish as a human being – although some interpretation of CA, such as Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach, develop a more specific idea of human flourishing and the instituti…

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