…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…
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…