Jan Vandemoortele - Equity begins with children

Equity begins with children Jan Vandemoortele

We seek to confirm, not to question, our ideas
We tend to oversimplify
Don't Believe Everything You Think The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking Thomas Kida, 2007

All developing countries -7 +7 +9 -3 +10 +11

1990 2009 2015 Global MDG scorecard (as of 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

+2.7 yrs +1.2 yrs

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 Eckhart early 14 th 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”

Jan Vandemoortele - Equity begins with children

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