Live chat: shouldn't we aim to end extreme wealth, not extreme poverty?
Claire Melamed takes part in the Guardian's live web chat examining the UN high-level panel's report on development after the millennium development goals (MDGs) expire in 2015.
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The good, the bad and the ugly in the long-awaited UN development report
'We're firmly in "jigsaw" territory – a report trying, ambitiously, to solve interrelated problems at once. It sets out the destination well. We're unclear about the journey, and the roles of different actors in getting us there – but there's still two years left to negotiate.' -
Radically redefining the role of business in a post 2015 world – the need for symbiotic partnerships for development
'It has become clear that collectively we are still a long way from achieving any kind of consensus on the way forward. And even further from finding more transformative solutions to the challenges we face in achieving sustainable and inclusive development.' -
Youth activist holding a speakerphone
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Credit: Restless Development 2013
Source: Sent by Restless DevelopmentYouth and the post-2015 agenda: making the voices of young people count
Expert panelists share their reflections on how a youth-lens to the post 2015 development framework can deliver for wider society.
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MY World: Summary of results May 2013
Claire Melamed, Paul LaddBy 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. -
After success: poverty beyond the MDGs
'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.' -
Market stall, Ivory Coast
Preparing a market stall - Abidjan, Ivory Coast
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Source: FlickrBusiness, the Millennium Development Goals and beyond
This event aimed to explore the views of those investing and doing business in Africa and to understand how best to harness business as an engine for economic development in the context of a new set of development goals.
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Post-2015 wonkwar continued: Claire Melamed on why it’s a good thing and your chance to vote
'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.' -
Education goals: third time’s the charm?
'As the world’s third set of education goals emerges for post-2015, education actors would do well to move quickly from the ‘what’ onto broader elements of ‘how’ any new goals can be achieved.' -
Equity, inequality and human development in a post-2015 framework
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.