from poverty to power
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Duncan Green book launchTRANSCRIPT
Intro video
What is it?
An NGO narrative on development – literature review + conversation + programme experience (mainly Asia, Latin America and Africa)
A ‘reflection’ on the state of development, i.e. not an agreed Oxfam policy position
Target audience:• Next generation leaders and opinion formers, North
and South• Current development practitioners, policy makers,
influencers
What’s the vision?
Women and men in communities
everywhere who are equipped with
education, enjoying good health, with
rights, dignity and voice - in charge of
their own destinies
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Decreasing Inequalities
Annual % Gini
Annual % Gini Change
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Inequality is falling in some countries…
Ho
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uras 1986-1999
Co
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bia 1991-2003
Rw
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a 1985-2000
Increasing Inequalities
…but rising in many more
Annual % Gini Change
4
3
2
1
0
The Answer?The Answer?
Rebalancing PowerRebalancing Power
OpportunitiesOpportunitiesOpportunitiesOpportunities
The Answer?The Answer?
And AssetsAnd Assets
The Answer?The Answer?
What's needed:What's needed:
Active Active CitizensCitizens
What's needed:What's needed:
Effective Effective States States
Dilemma: are Effective States compatible with Active Citizens?
Dilemma: are Effective States compatible with Active Citizens? Nation builders are often undemocratic But East Asia distorts the picture - autocrats often fail
and civil society is now less tolerant of ‘benevolent dictators’
Social contracts have triggered development (e.g. Scandinavia), but selection bias excludes such states
According to study by Rodrik, democracies:– Produce more predictable long run growth rates– Produce greater short term stability– Handle shocks much better– Deliver more equality
Climate Change v Redistribution
Climate Change makes redistribution both more urgent, and more difficult
Three possible outcomes:
– Climate change avoided, inequality reduced (Global New Deal)
– Climate change avoided, but at cost of increased inequality (Carbon Apartheid)
– Catastrophic climate change + rising inequality (Meltdown)
Ten challenges
What difference does inequality make? Do we have a religious blind spot? Is it time to go urban? Can we really help build effective states? What do we do about migration?
Ten challenges, continued
How do we integrate humanitarian and development work better?
Can we be more accountable and/or politically aware?
Is global institution building a waste of time? If national > global, what do we do differently? How do we develop a model for how change
happens?
And finally…..
The power of youtube How do you capture a 500 page book in a 2.5
minute video?
For more information…
Background papers, downloads, videos, media coverage etc on www.fp2p.org
Duncan’s blog on www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/