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Claire Melamed

Head of Programme, Growth, Poverty and Inequality

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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MY World: Summary of results May 2013

Publication - Research reports and studies - 15 May 2013

Claire Melamed, Paul Ladd

By May 16th 2013, the MY World survey had mobilized over 570 000 participants in 190 countries to vote for their most important priorities. The data that the survey is generating yields important information not only on global priorities, but also how these differ by characteristics: by gender, age, education level, and location. This paper provides information on the current findings at a global and sub-global level.

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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 - 28 April 2013

Human Development Research Papers

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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European Report on Development 2013 - Post-2015: global action for an inclusive and sustainable future

Publication - Research reports and studies - 9 April 2013

James Mackie (European Centre for Development Policy Management), Pedro Martins (Overseas Development Institute) and Stephan Klingebiel (Deutsche Institut für Entwicklungspolitik)

The European Report on Development 2013 aims to provide an independent contribution to the post-2015 debate by focusing on how best global collective action can support the efforts of developing countries to achieve development.

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