Global Health Impact project refines index ahead of NYU law seminar
The Global Health Impact project is happy to welcome a new batch of interns working on improving the first draft of the index that will appear in a proceedings from…
Introducing ASAP’s Quick Response and Campaign Coordination Teams
Two new groups of ASAP volunteers — the Quick Response Team and Campaign Coordination Team — will work together to provide research, consultation, and other support services to Beyond 2015. Beyond 2015 is a…
Global Experts on Participation Join ASAP Team Promoting Inclusion in post-MDG Consultations
Some of the world\’s most prominent scholars of participatory governance and development have joined an ASAP team formed to help ensure an inclusive process in the development of replacement measures for the…
Special Issue of Ethics & International Affairs Explores Idea and Promise of ASAP
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…
ASAP provides background brief for post-MDG consultation
ASAP provided a background brief titled \”After 2015: What Do We Know? Where Do We Go From Here?\” to participants in a civil society dialogue on the MDG successors, held…
ASAP Joins Beyond 2015\’s Committee on Governance and Accountability
Beyond 2015 is a coalition of 380+ CSOs which is seeking to create a civil society consensus around a minimum standard of legitimacy for a post-2015 framework, both in terms of the…
UNDP holding national and thematic consultations on the post-MDG Framework, Beyond 2015 coordinating civil society input
The United Nations Development Programme is holding a series of thematic consultations on the post-MDG framework with academia, media, private sector, employers and trade unions, civil society and decision makers. These consultations…
ASAP to launch new project on international institutional reform goals in the post-MDG framework
One of the  areas of agreement that have already emerged through the Global Poverty Consensus Report dialogue process is that the post-MDG framework should include goals for reforming the structure of…
GPCR to publish 50 interviews with leading experts on the post-MDG: previews available
Over the last months we have been interviewing leading experts from different disciplines, approaches and places on their views on what should replace the MDGs. In the next November these…
Number Games: India’s Declining Poverty Figures Based on Flawed Estimation method; Accurate Figures Show 75 Percent in Poverty
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 against which poverty is measured has itself been allowed to fall over time. If the original definition of poverty line is used then three-quarters of India’s population today are poor. China also would see a dramatic increase, and the World Bank’s global poverty numbers would be revised far upward.