The Handbook on Child Poverty and Inequality addresses the many forms of child poverty, economic, social and political exclusions and how to measure them https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/book/9781802200430/9781802200430.xml. See my comments here.
Author: Gabriele Koehler
Global Social Policy Forum
The world is awash with money but wealth is highly concentrated while economic poverty is rampant. One way to address this social injustice is to redistribute through progressive taxation and to universalize social protection. On this, see a riveting Global Social Policy Forum on thinking afresh. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14680181241290162?icid=int.sj-full-text.similar-articles Wonderful to join Nicola Yeates, Roosa Lambin, Nabila…
Read MoreThe big disconnect
We note a disconcerting disconnect at the annual SDG meet at the UN between what governments say in New York and that they do at home. The German government is a prime example. Its 2025 SDG report is good, covers many themes and is honest on shortcomings (it was actually penned by the preceding government…
Read More2025 summits: webinar
Global Summit Watch is convening a webinar presenting and discussing the many summit conferences of 2025 on Monday 21 July 12:30. Join me and other speakers at the Bahai Centre New York or online.bit.ly/NY-Global-Summit-Watch. Background here.
Watching the 2025 global commitments pipeline
Multilateralism is weak (to put it mildly), but global summitry remains strong in 2025 nevertheless, with a string of meetings at heads of state/government level, and forceful progressive civil society presence and pressure. Thus, for instance, feminists celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action at the Commission on the Status of Women…
Read MoreBook launch and panel
SDGs and decent work at the 9th ILO conference on regulating for decent work (Geneva, 2-4 July 2025) The panel chaired by Christoph Scherrer featured 5 chapters of the comprehensive volume. ©ILO from left to right: Panelists, chapter authors Fiona Dragsta, Gerhard Bosch, Nausheen Nizami, Uma Rani, Christoph Scherrer, Rishabh Dhir, Gabriele Köhler See ideas and commentaries for…
Read MoreILO conference on regulating for decent work
As is well-known, SDG8 is devoted to full and productive employment and decent work for all. The Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals, edited by Madelaine Moore, Christoph Scherrer, and Marcel van der Linden, unpacks this as a host of methodological, policy and political challenges. Questions include: How is unemployment…
Read MoreThe centrality of work that is decent
The majority of adults – 2 billion workers – are caught in the so-called informal economy, with the trend towards casualisation of work tendentially increasing this number. Women are particularly affected, both because of the gendered inequitable nature of their employment, and their multiple roles in the care economy, as are other socially marginalised groups.…
Read MoreComing up: ILO conference on regulating for decent work
As mentioned earlier, the ILO conference on regulating for decent work starts on 2 July. See ideas and commentaries.
Comments on The Handbook on Child Poverty and Inequality
As children and young people are murdered, on a daily basis, in Gaza, Myanmar, Nepal, Sudan and many other countries, does it even make sense to do research? What effect can this have? The purpose of committed research course is to document inequities, uncover and analyse systemic issues, chart existing policies and their impact, and…
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