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Separate Legal Identity and Birth Registration in the Post-2015 Agenda
Casey Dunning et al.
September 16, 2014
September 16 officially kicks off the 69th session of the UN General Assembly and the one-year countdown for negotiations of the successor framework to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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Strange Bedfellows: The Politics of Penurious Poverty Lines (Part II)
Lant Pritchett
September 11, 2014
The head of USAID claims that “political momentum” is building to make extreme poverty “central” to the development agenda.  The question is: How does one build political momentum for a global development agenda that excludes 5 billion people and the middle class of (nea...
POLICY PAPERS
Birth Registration, Legal Identity, and the Post-2015 Agenda
Casey Dunning et al.
September 09, 2014
Universal legal identity through birth registration has consistently remained as a potential target for the post-2015 agenda through several rounds of negotiation. However, as it has been put forth, it conflates legal identity and birth registration. This policy note clarifies the differences betwee...
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A Development Agenda without Developing Countries? The Politics of Penurious Poverty Lines (Part I)
Lant Pritchett
September 04, 2014
“Dollar a day” poverty morphed from a technical curiosity that interests at most a few dozen technocrats to the first of the Millennium Development Goals. It is now one of only two corporate goals of the World Bank (in spite of its obvious inconsistency with the World Bank’s own Ar...
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The Post-2015 Development Goals Need to Address Migration—And It Looks Like They Just Might
Michael Clemens
August 25, 2014
Government officials across the world will sit down in conference rooms over the next year to rebuild the global development policy agenda.
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What’s the Point of the Post-2015 Agenda?
Charles Kenny
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Casey Dunning
August 13, 2014
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2030: Let’s Hope It's Half This Awesome
Charles Kenny
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Casey Dunning
June 05, 2014