Publications and other resources - Growth, Poverty and Inequality - Programmes

Research reports and studies, May 2012

Authors: 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.
50 pages
ISBN: 978-90-78645-98-6
Published by PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
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ODI Background Notes, May 2012

Authors: Claire Melamed, Andrew Scott and Tom Mitchell
Linking development and environmental objectives through policy initiatives is not an easy task. This Background Note sets out to explain why reconciling the two agendas has been so difficult at a practical level, and suggests how Rio+20 could start to bridge the gaps between the two.
8 pages
Published by ODI as part of the ODI Background Notes series.
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Research reports and studies, March 2012

Authors: Claire Melamed, Nancy Devlin and John Appleby
This report proposes one approach to answering the question: "Can we devise a way of measuring outcomes, based on poor people's own values, which strikes the right balance between a reasonable representation of reality and usability by policy makers?"
34 pages
Published by ODI
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Research reports and studies, March 2012

Authors: Claire Melamed
This paper considers some current proposals for integrating inequality into a post-2015 framework.
8 pages
Published by ODI
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Research reports and studies, January 2012

Authors: Claire Melamed
As the 2015 expiry date of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) draws nearer, this report looks at the history of the MDGs, and sets out context for discussions on a possible future global agreement to promote development and reduce poverty.
63 pages
Published by ODI
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ODI Background Notes, November 2011

Authors: Fiona Samuels, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, Sanju Wagle, Tahmina Sultana and Mirza Manbira Sultana
This ODI Background Note explores the magnitude, causes and consequences of migration in South Asia including the social and behavioural mechanisms underlying the relationship between migration and HIV-related vulnerabilities.
12 pages
Published by ODI, CARE International and The Big Lottery Fund as part of the ODI Background Notes series.
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Discussion papers, November 2011

Authors: Claire Melamed
This paper explores how a consensus between current trends in thinking among some of the newly influential middle income countries, and the aid preoccupations of traditional donors, could form the basis of a new global agreement on development.
11 pages
Published by ODI
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Discussion papers, October 2011

Authors: Claire Melamed and Andy Sumner
This paper was prepared for the ODI/UNDP Cairo workshop on a post-2015 Global Development Agreement, 26-27 October 2011.
38 pages
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Research reports and studies, October 2011

Authors: Pedro Martins and Terry McKinley
This report investigates social inclusiveness in Asia's middle-income countries and explores some of the challenges in moving the development policy agenda from an exclusive poverty focus to an ‘inclusive growth’ strategy.
57 pages
Published by ODI and Centre for Development Policy and Research
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ODI Background Notes, October 2011

Authors: Fiona Samuels, Maja Gavrilovic, Caroline Harper and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa
This Background Note presents key findings of a study that maps the impacts of the food finance and fuel (3F) crisis on vulnerable social groups, particularly women and children, as well as related coping strategies undertaken by households across Nigeria’s six socioeconomic zones. We are grateful for research assistance from: Hanna Alder, Keziah Awosika, Sunday Alonge, Massimiliano Cali, Erin Cullen, Titilope Fakoye, Nicola Jones and Sade Taiwo.
12 pages
Published by ODI as part of the ODI Background Notes series.
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ODI Project Briefings 61, September 2011

Authors: Fiona Samuels and Carolyn Blake
Social protection has become an increasingly popular policy and programme option to address the vulnerabilities experienced by the poorest people in developing countries, including those affected and infected by HIV and AIDS. This Project Briefing explores the relationship between social protection and related programming in a context of high HIV prevalence in Nigeria.
4 pages
Published by ODI as part of the ODI Project Briefings series. This resources was an output of the following ODI project: Social Protection Diagnostic and Forward Agenda UNICEF Nigeria .
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