The ‘3Ts’ of the G8 summit – tax, trade and transparency – are interlinked, especially through the axis between transparency and tax, as Kevin Watkins outlines. Discussions on tax are bringing to light the hidden worlds of corporate tax avoidance and tax evasion by individuals, whereas – led by the UK – the transparency agenda is focusing on land, open data and extractives.
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Do cash transfer programmes effectively address issues of social exclusion? These and other questions will be explored in an ODI event which will present findings from Transforming Cash Transfers, a DFID-funded study that investigates beneficiary and community perspectives on unconditional cash transfer programmes in five countries - Kenya, Mozambique, the Occupied Palestinian Territories (both Gaza and West Bank), Uganda and Yemen.
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ODI has partnered with Wikigender, the OECD, DFID and The Girl Hub to produce an online discussion exploring the impact of discriminatory social norms on adolescent girls. We would like to hear your views, lessons learned and best practices and policies on empowering adolescent girls. The inputs of this discussion will be presented via summary report at the 'Empowering adolescent girls by tackling social norms' event, to be held on the 26th April 2013.
Violent attacks on girls and women are nothing new. But two particularly shocking attacks on young women in 2012 have not only sparked widespread condemnation, they are also shaping the discussion on what follows the Millennium Development Goals.
To mark International Day of the Girl Child Simon Wright Head of Child Survival at Save the Children, Nicola Jones, ODI research fellow and Lakshmi Sundaram, Global Coordinator of Girls not Brides discuss girls' access to reproductive rights.
