John Edwards and the fight against poverty
Sarah Jane Hise writes in the CGD Blog about presidential candidate John Edwards and his Global Poverty Proposal launched last week: "Restoring America's Moral Leadership by Fighting Worldwide Poverty"
Poverty Reduction Strategies
International Women's Day
Today is International Women's Day.
A good day to remember that Gender Equality is not only desirable and fair per se, it is also Smart Economics, promoting growth and poverty reduction. (Full World Bank's Gender Action Plan)
Internet course: Economic Policies for Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries
We are organizing the second part of our Economic Literacy for Civil Society Internet course: "Economic Policies for Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries" (18 March to 13 April). The course is based on the teaching materials used in our Fridays Academy series.
Employment and Shared Growth Website Launch
Our colleagues from the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Group have recently launched the new Employment and Shared Growth web-site.
In their own words:
World Day to Overcome Extreme Poverty
Did you know that October 17th is the World Day to Overcome Extreme Poverty, officially recognised by the United Nations in 1992?
Yes, the next one is still far away but you can already support this initiative signing the call to action.
Panos Media Toolkits on Trade and Poverty Reduction
The London-based Panos Institute, which supports the media in stimulating debate on development issues, has produced a number of resources to support journalists, particularly in the developing countries, in covering trade and poverty reduction.
‘Who’s Richer, Who’s Poorer? A Journalist’s Guide to the Politics of Poverty Reduction’
The Smell of Poverty
I already blogged about the latest UNDP Human Development Report on water and poverty, but I can't help mentioning it again after reading Mario Vargas Llosa’s comment on the report.
For our Spanish-speaking audience, “El olor de la pobreza” (the smell of poverty) is an excellent read. His article, peppered with literary quotes, is as poignant and tough as Vargas Llosa can get.
Promoting Pro-poor Growth: Policy Guidance for Donors
Why has growth been more successful in reducing poverty in some countries than in others? How can poor women and men best participate in, contribute to and benefit from growth? What can donors do to promote a pattern of growth that better connects poor people to the growth process and to help deal with the risks, vulnerabilities and market failures which hold back their participation?
Muhammad Yunus' Nobel Lecture
Muhammad Yunus gave his Nobel Lecture in Oslo yesterday.
We get what we want, or what we don't refuse. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us, and that poverty is part of human destiny. This is precisely why we continue to have poor people around us. If we firmly believe that poverty is unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have built appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world.
World Bank's Annual Review of Development Effectiveness 2006
The World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) launched today its Annual Review of Development Effectiveness 2006: Getting Results.
It assembles evidence around three questions central to poverty reduction:
- How effectively has economic growth translated into poverty reduction in Bank-assisted countries and what factors have affected these results?