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Equity begins with children
Jan Vandemoortele
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• We seek to confirm, not to question, our ideas
• We tend to oversimplify
Don't Believe Everything You ThinkThe 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking
Thomas Kida, 2007
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0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Underweight Primary SchoolEnrolment
% Girls Child Mortality Measles Deliveries
1990 2009
All developing countries
-7
+7 +9
-3
+10
+11
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Gender Parity
Child mortality
Child malnutrition
Primary education
Maternal health
Achieved To be Achieved
1990 2009 2015
Global MDG scorecard (as of 2009)
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0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Underweight Primary SchoolEnrolment
% Girls Child Mortality Measles Deliveries
1990 2009
Sub-Saharan Africa
-5 (-7)
+18 (+7)
+13 (+9)
-5 (-3)
+4 (+10)
+13 (+11)
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Africa is not missing the targets, you are missing the point!
“African poverty and stagnation is the greatest tragedy of our time.”
Blair Commission for Africa, 2005
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60 70 80 90
Glasgow
Kensington
2003/05
2007/09
+2.7 yrs
+1.2 yrs
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-35%
-25%
-15%
-5%Bo
ttom
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th Top
Trends in malnutrition – South Asia
(1995-2009, by quintile)
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• Top 10%: appropriated 91% of gains in income between 1989 and 2006
• Top 1%: captured nearly 60% of income-growth between 1976-2007
• Top 0.1%: income share up from 4% to 12% between 1979 and 2006
• “[...] the US economy did well, except for the people in it”
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“There is no one policy for reducing inequality […] and another for raising national
performance. Reducing inequality is the best way of
doing both”
The Spirit Level – Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
Wilkinson & Pickett, 2009
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“In fact, a more equal society has a greater
likelihood of sustaining longer-term growth”
F&D, September 2011
Editor-in-Chief
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“Salvation does not depend on what we do but on who we are”
Meister Eckhartearly 14th century
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Mughal Shah Jahan 1592-66
Queen Ulrika-Eleonora 1656-93
“No hay camino, se hace camino al andar”
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The best leaders are not more visionary or more creative;
Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos & Luck – why some thrive despite them all
Collins & Hansen, 2011
they are more disciplined and more empirical”