Poverty Reduction and Social Development

The group on Poverty Reduction and Social Development seeks to promote coherence in policy making to ensure that development brings maximum equality and poverty reduction in societies overall. Of particular concern are employment and social protection, gender equality and migration. New and innovative tools in the areas of gender, development, and social institutions include Wikigender and the SIGI . Learn more.

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Side event on discriminatory social institutions organised at the 56th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women

on 01-Mar-2012

The OECD Development Centre is co-organising, with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and the Government of Kenya, a panel discussion on "Empowering women through the transformation of discriminatory social institutions " at the 56th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York.

Tackling the Policy Challenges of Migration: Regulation, Integration, Development – Book Launch, Washington D.C., 17 November 2011

The conference will gather experts and policy makers sharing research and experience, ranging from local to global initiatives, and marks the launch of a new book by the OECD Development Centre: "Tackling the Policy Challenges of Migration: Regulation, Integration, Development." The book is the result of a three-year project on Effective Partnerships for Better Migration Management and Development, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. It provides a contribution to the current debate on international migration, focusing on three elements in standard policy dialogue.

Seminar "Inequality, Poverty and Public Policies in Latin America"

on 11-Jul-2011

Nora Lustig (Tulane University, Center for Global Development and Inter-American Dialogue) presented her latest research on poverty, inequality and public policies in Latin America at a Seminar organised by the Development Centre on 11 July at the OECD Headquarters. Decreasing returns to education and targeted conditional cash transfers contribute to explain the bulk of the reduction of inequality in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Peru during the last decade. See the presentation.

Workshop on Immigrant Integration in Ghana

08-Feb-2011

The OECD Development Centre and ISSER co-organised a workshop in Accra,on 8 December 2010 to discuss immigrant integration in West Africa, with a specific focus on Ghana. This workshop brought together researchers and policy makers to share experiences and perspectives, in order to develop effective policies aimed at a better integration of immigrants.

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