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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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The future face of development: building inclusive growth into a post-2015 framework

Event - Public event - 28 June 2012 15:00 - 16:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

Building on recent ODI research, this meeting will bring together global experts engaged on the future development agenda. It will focus on the proposals emerging from Rio and recent post-2015 discussions, to identify opportunities and potential pitfalls to building a new type of growth into future development.

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Measuring well-being: what can international development learn from the health sector?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 26 June 2012

'What do we think we’re doing when we do ‘development’? Surely, it has to be about making lives better for people as they themselves experience them. But we know surprisingly little about how poor people actually define ‘making lives better’. And when it comes to aid allocation, poor people are rarely asked about their priorities.'

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Rio+20: the UN Conference on Sustainable Development

Event - Conference - 20 - 22 June 2012

Rio +20 will focus on pivotal environmental, economic and social issues for the future. ODI work will respond to the key debates taking place at this crucial conference.

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Health and education post-2015

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 15 June 2012

'I don’t detect any doubt among the key post-2015 policy makers at the moment that health and education will be central to a new framework – though they might have to share that centre with a few more issues, like growth and employment, this time around...We probably need to guard against the tyranny of newness and remember that there are lots of things to be said about the existing agendas too.'

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Inequality, a new frontier for post 2015 development policy

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 12 June 2012

'What can we do between now and 2015 to avert the inequality car crash? First, the extremes of inequality in human development outcomes need to be tackled as soon as possible. For moral, economic and political reasons, ending global poverty should be the first priority of a new global development framework after 2015. This can only be done by addressing the inequalities which act as a barrier to progress for too many people.'

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