African countries are now recognising the value of social protection programmes in reducing extreme poverty. This two-week course aims to give an in-depth understanding of how to develop social transfer programmes. ‘Designing and Implementing Social Transfer Programmes’ A course for policymakers, government officials and practitioners 27 July – 7 August 2015 / Cape Town, South Africa The Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI), the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), and UNU-ME...
Ahead of the UN Climate Summit in Paris (COP21) set for December 2015, Prof. Shyama V. Ramani was asked to give a lecture as part of the “Economists Facing Climate Change” series. Here she explains the links between poverty and climate change: what the problems are and how we — globally — can address them. There is increasing acknowledgement of the premise that climate change is real, its impact is worldwide and it is in the interest of all countries to not only mitigate climate chan...
Poverty is a multidimensional concept and how to measure it properly is still up for debate. This workshop tackles various analytical challenges and their implications in methodological terms, with a host of experts sharing insights drawn from their own research. Introduction The Poverty, Public Policy and Inclusive Innovation (PPPII) Research Group at UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance will host a one-day workshop on Analytical Challenges for Measuring Multidimensional Poverty and Well-bein...
Just 13 years after the Millennium Summit of September 2000, the end of extreme poverty seems to be in sight. Some recent estimates say that the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) was already reached in 2010 and that around 700 million people were lifted out of extreme poverty. In 2013, the World Bank declared a new goal, to end extreme poverty by 2030. The last two decades have witnessed unprecedented success, but will 2030 really mark the end of extreme poverty? In a new working paper, we...