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Roots of Gender Inequality

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Gender inequality has its roots in differences between men and women in society. These result from social constructions of relations, which in turn stem from sexual…

What is Urban Poverty?

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What is Urban Poverty?

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This video is part of Module 3: How can we reduce urban poverty and make cities inclusive and safe? In this course learn about the major challenges currently faced by…

How Climate Change Threatens the Poorest of the…

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How Climate Change Threatens the Poorest of the…

How Climate Change Threatens the Poorest of the Poor

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The Millennium Development Goals were commitments made in the year 2000 by the UN to help Africa and other poor regions of the world end extreme poverty, and also to…

Ideas of Poverty and Wellbeing

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Ideas of Poverty and Wellbeing

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Poverty has been an important part of the development agenda since the 1990s, but the way that we measure poverty has changed drastically over the years. Inequality is…

The Challenge of Global Poverty

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The Challenge of Global Poverty

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In this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs tackles SDG1, ending extreme poverty, looking at the resources available and how a lack of distribution leads towards vast…

Measures of well-being

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Measures of well-being

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Societal progress is about improvements in the well-being of people and households. Assessing such progress requires looking not only at the functioning of the economic…

Policing, racism, and colorism in America and…

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Policing, racism, and colorism in America and…

Policing, racism, and colorism in America and beyond

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Learn about the existing inequalities in America and you can reduce your own biases for a more equitable society. Learn about implicit bias and how to become a racial…

The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood…

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The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood…

The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development – Trailer

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Enroll in The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

Introducing well-being

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Introducing well-being

From SDG Academy

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From Carol Graham, one of the first economists to start thinking about happiness and wellbeing as part of science, learn about happiness and its complex connection to…

Inequality, poverty, and social identity

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Inequality, poverty, and social identity

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Globally, concerns about rising and common wealth and equality have intensified in recent years. This discourse has sort of transcended academic and political circles…

Conversation with Richard Rothstein, The Color of…

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Conversation with Richard Rothstein, The Color of…

Conversation with Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law

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This conversation with Richard Rothstein took place on February 24, 2021, as part of the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs. They discussed Rothstein's book The Color of…

Poverty reduction in East Asia

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Poverty reduction in East Asia

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Progress in the fight against poverty has been made in the poorest large countries in Asia in the last 40 years and the pace of progress in eliminating poverty has been…

Continuing Poverty

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Continuing Poverty

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This lecture serves as an introduction to the idea of poverty in the context of the SDGs. It further examines the geography of poverty and the concentration of low,…

The Strategy to End Poverty

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The Strategy to End Poverty

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In this lecture, Professor Sachs uses differential diagnosis to look at extreme poverty and poverty traps in sub Saharan Africa. This video is not available under a…

Exclusion and inequality in South Africa

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Exclusion and inequality in South Africa

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South Africa has generally experienced economic growth since its transition to democracy in 1994, but has not seen the type of attendant gains in welfare one might have…

Attacking Gender Inequality within Development

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Attacking Gender Inequality within Development

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Gender wasn’t on the development agenda until the 1970s. At that time, it was recognized that development could harm women as modernization brings increased…

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