World Poverty Forum

As a young boy, Sukhadeo Thorat felt humiliation when an upper caste child slapped his face for inadvertently touching the communal well. As a teen-ager, he felt anger when he and other local dalits (former untouchables)... Read More

Here is the latest in a series of profiles of academic difference makers produced as part of ASAP’s Impact: Global Poverty project. In this article, project Contributing Editor Sumaiyah Moolla interviews Professor... Read More

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A special issue published by leading field journal Ethics & International Affairs focuses on ASAP’s potential for promoting collaboration and impact on global poverty by academics worldwide. In a linked... Read More

This 'virtual roundtable' features interviews with four prominent commentators on development and global poverty: Varun Gauri is a Senior Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank; Branko... Read More

In this featured article, Utsa Patnaik, Professor of Economics (Retired) at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, argues that the Indian government massively undercounts the poor because the consumption standard... Read More

Benjamin Hill / Public Relations Manager, University of Birmingham / Interacting with the media (in whatever form) allows your research to reach thousands or even millions of people, through TV, press, blogs... Read More

Keith Horton / ASAP Board Member Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Wollongong / khorton@uow.edu.au / I floated the original ASAP proposal in 2009 and, in partnership with Meena Krishnamurthy, made the first... Read More

Knut-Eric Joslin SUCCESSORS TO THE MDGs: A SUMMARY REPORT The next two years will be a formative period for potential successors to the Millennium Development Goals, and a significant policy dialogue has already... Read More

Here are Thomas Pogge's closing comments at the “Impact: Global Poverty” meeting to launch ASAP in the UK, held at the University of Birmingham. He offers thoughts on the global potential of ASAP, as well as... Read More