jan vandemoortele - equity begins with children
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Jan Vandemoortele - Equity begins with childrenPresentation given at conference on 17/18 November in honour of Sir Richard JollyTRANSCRIPT
Equity begins with children
Jan Vandemoortele
• 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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40%
60%
80%
100%
Underweight Primary SchoolEnrolment
% Girls Child Mortality Measles Deliveries
1990 2009
All developing countries
-7
+7 +9
-3
+10
+11
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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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)
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
60 70 80 90
Glasgow
Kensington
2003/05
2007/09
+2.7 yrs
+1.2 yrs
-35%
-25%
-15%
-5%Bo
ttom
Seco
nd
Mid
dle
Four
th Top
Trends in malnutrition – South Asia
(1995-2009, by quintile)
• 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”
“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
“In fact, a more equal society has a greater
likelihood of sustaining longer-term growth”
F&D, September 2011
Editor-in-Chief
“Salvation does not depend on what we do but on who we are”
Meister Eckhartearly 14th century
Mughal Shah Jahan 1592-66
Queen Ulrika-Eleonora 1656-93
“No hay camino, se hace camino al andar”
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”