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Development Progress is a four year research project which aims to better understand, measure and communicate what has worked in development and why. By examining progress across countries, and within sectors, Development Progress provides evidence for what has worked in development.

Sustaining improvements in maternal health beyond the MDGs: what can we learn from Nepalese experience

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As part of Development Progress researchers will draw upon case study analysis to “dig deeper” and examine how improvements in wellbeing were achieved. The purpose of the case study series is to gain deeper insights into the causal mechanisms that enable improved development outcomes.

Where next for sustainable development after Rio+20?

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A meeting of theAll-Party Parliamentary Group for International Development & the Environment, the All-Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development to discuss the outcomes of the recent Rio+20 Earth Summit and the next steps in building a fairer and more sustainable world. Please RSVP to appg@iied.org.Chair:Lord Terverson

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  • Lant Pritchett
    Thursday 16th May, 2013
    'For some purposes ‘extreme poverty’ is very useful, whereas for others, like measuring progress in middle income countries where ‘extreme poverty’ is very low or focusing on the continued gaps between rich countries and the rest, it is not useful at all...'
  • Martin Ravallion
    Friday 10th May, 2013
    'I would suggest we think about monitoring two poverty goals going forward: absolute poverty by the $1.25 a day standard and relative poverty by the standards typical of the country one lives in...'
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