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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 can Rio+20 achieve?

Opinion - Podcasts and audio - 31 May 2012

This month's Global development podcast looks ahead to the Rio+20 talks and asks what they may mean for sustainable development.

The discussion looks back 20 years to see where this all began, explores arguments for a "green economy" (a key conference theme) and the role of business in sustainable development, and considers what is at stake for the People's summit.

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Inclusive growth and a post-2015 framework

Publication - Research reports and studies - 31 May 2012

Gina Bergh, Claire Melamed

One of the recurring themes in the debate about the post-2015 agenda is the role that growth and employment issues should have within it. Current debates point to three, not mutually exclusive, approaches, tackling different parts of the policy agenda on inclusive growth.

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Infrastructure service goals after 2015

Event - Round-table - 24 May 2012 10:00 - 12:30 (GMT+00)

The roundtable will contribute to the evolving debate about the framework of development goals, which will be developed over the next three years, and will discuss questions specific to infrastructure services.

The roundtable will be an opportunity before Rio +20 to exchange knowledge and insights amongst experienced practitioners and researchers relating to infrastructure and development progress, with a view to identifying options for how infrastructure services could be incorporated in the sustainable development goal framework after 2015.

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Roads from Rio+20: pathways to achieve global sustainability goals by 2050

Publication - Research reports and studies - 15 May 2012

Detlef van Vuuren, Marcel Kok (eds) et al with Claire Melamed, Andrew Scott, Dirk Willem te Velde and Steve Wiggins (ODI)

This report analyses how combinations of technological measures and changes in consumption patterns could contribute to achieving a set of sustainability objectives, taking into account the interlinkages between them.

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Rio+20 must... do the impossible

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 10 May 2012

'The level of ambition of those outside the Rio process is not matched by those within it. The last round of negotiations on the ‘Outcome document’ finished in New York at the end of last week, and the signs are that concrete agreements will be hard to come by.'

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