Combating Poverty and Inequality

Poverty reduction is a central feature of the international development agenda and contemporary poverty reduction strategies increasingly focus on "targeting the poor", yet poverty and inequality remain intractable foes.

This video explores UNRISD's Flagship Report "Combating Poverty and Inequality: Structural Change, Social Policy and Politics" (released 3 September 2010).

To read the report, click on this link http://tinyurl.com/6yc2wvg

The report argues that this is because many current approaches to reducing poverty and inequality fail to consider key institutional, policy and political dimensions that may be both causes of poverty and inequality, and obstacles to their reduction.

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