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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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What do people want a post-2015 agenda to do for them?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 5 February 2013

'There’s a lot of talk in post-2015-land about finding out what people want from a new agreement. With numbers and clear priorities MY World can help to provide useful and useable answers to the question ‘what do people want’ for the politicians constructing the post-2015 agenda.'

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MY World: First survey results

Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 January 2013

Claire Melamed, Paul Ladd

Results for the first comprehensive offline MY World survey in Liberia, as well as preliminary results from the online survey are now available.

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Choosing what’s ‘most important’ to people

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 29 January 2013

'The question for the negotiators who will draw up the final agreement is not ‘what’s important’ but ‘what’s most important’. Too often, that’s where the consultation ends and it all goes into those same back rooms that created the first MDGs. Not this time.'

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MY World

Projects - January 2013 to August 2015

What is it that people most want in life? The answers are to be found in the United Nations MY World survey, brainchild of Claire Melamed, Head of ODI’s Growth, Poverty and Inequality Programme, and Paul Ladd, Senior Advisor and Head of Post-2015 at UNDP. MY World captures people’s voices, priorities and views, so that global leaders can be informed as they begin the process of defining the new development agenda for the world. More than 1 million people have participated so far, making this one of the biggest surveys ever carried out.

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Make foreign aid more business-friendly? We’ve been there, Mr. Fantino

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 29 November 2012

'Leaving aside the short-term commercial objectives, could linking aid more closely to the private sector help to create growth and an end to aid altogether? Well, maybe. But there are reasons to be cautious.'

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