Claire Melamed

Head of Programme, Growth, Poverty and Inequality

c.melamed@odi.org.uk

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Claire Melamed is the Head of the Growth, Poverty and Inequality Programme at ODI. She was previously the Head of Policy at ActionAid UK. She has also worked for Christian Aid, the United Nations in Mozambique, and taught at the University of London and the Open University.

Claire's current research interests are on the MDGs and the development of a post-MDG international agreement on development, on how an analysis of equity can improve our understanding of poverty and how to end it, on how to design policies to ensure that the benefits of growth are distributed to poor people, and on how to make inequality visible to policy makers through better data.

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Live chat: shouldn't we aim to end extreme wealth, not extreme poverty?

Event - Live web chat - 4 June 2013 13:00 - 14:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

Claire Melamed takes part in the Guardian's live web chat examining the UN high-level panel's report on development after the millennium development goals (MDGs) expire in 2015.

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The good, the bad and the ugly in the long-awaited UN development report

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 30 May 2013

'We're firmly in "jigsaw" territory – a report trying, ambitiously, to solve interrelated problems at once. It sets out the destination well. We're unclear about the journey, and the roles of different actors in getting us there – but there's still two years left to negotiate.'

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After success: poverty beyond the MDGs

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 14 May 2013

'In the post-2015 world, global development may no longer be about developed and developing countries, but about poor people, wherever they live, and about countries trying, as best they can within the constraints of their political self-interest, to devise common solutions to global problems.'

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Post-2015 wonkwar continued: Claire Melamed on why it’s a good thing and your chance to vote

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 1 May 2013

'In any case, that is about the campaign and the public debate, not the goals, and the two shouldn’t be confused. If the outcome is important, being annoyed at the tone and strategy adopted by campaigners has to be a reason to get in there and change that, not to walk away.'

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Equity, inequality and human development in a post-2015 framework

Publication - Research reports and studies - 27 April 2013

Claire Melamed and Emma Samman

A focus on tackling inequality ought to be central to a human development approach to the post-2015 framework. This paper will argue for an agenda which this focus features explicitly. It calls for an expansive conception of inequality across multiple dimensions of development and on multiple levels—within countries, among people regardless of where they live, and encompassing both present and future generations.

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