Reports and Surveys
International Science Council (ISC) inaugural Action Plan 2019-2021
October 2019
The ISC's inaugural Action Plan, Advancing Science as a Global Public Good, was recently shared with ISC members.
Child Poverty and Deprivation in Refugee-Hosting Areas. Evidence from Uganda
June 2018
REPORT by UNICEF, Economic Policy Research Center (EPRC) and University of Cardiff.
Progress for Every Child in the SDG Era
UNICEF, 6 March 2018
REPORT assessing performance toward achieving the SDG global targets that concern children and young people.
On the Move - Global Migrations, Challenges and Responses
September 2017
DIGITAL PUBLICATION by the ISSC as a follow-up to last year's "On the Move" conference.
Child Poverty and Household coping Strategies in Croatia
May 2017
POLICY BRIEF by the Institute of Economics, Zagreb.
Addressing Urban Inequities and Childhood
October 2016
CONFERENCE REPORT: Recommendations for advancing the agenda for children and cities.
Monitoring Global Poverty
World Bank, 18 October 2016
REPORT by the Commission on Global Poverty, The World Bank
Walking the Talk: Transformative Pathways for Achieving the SDGs
17 October 2016 (16.00-17.30) | Palais des Nations, Geneva
REPORT: UNRISD 2016 Flagship Report "Policy Innovations for Transformative Change"
World Social Science Report 2016
22 September 2016 | Stockholm, Sweden
ISSC REPORT: Challenging Inequalities – Pathways to a Just World
The State of the World’s Children 2016: A fair chance for every child
UNICEF, 28 June 2016
REPORT: Making the right choices now can, and will, reverse poverty, illiteracy and early deaths of the world’s most disadvantaged children.
Universal Sustainable Development Goals
Stakeholder Forum, May 2015
Understanding the Transformational Challenge for Developed Countries.
Approaches to Equity Report
Equity for Children, May 2015
REPORT: Equity for Children initiated the Approaches to Equity study in 2013 and has recently published the final report.
Left Behind - Chronic Poverty in Latin America
World Bank report, March 2015
REPORT: Roughly 130 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean continue to subsist on less than $4 a day.
Adapting Development: Improving services to the poor
ODI Research Report, February 2015
REPORT: This report argues that if we are to avoid reproducing the pattern of uneven progress that has characterised the MDG campaign, there must be more explicit recognition of the political conditions that enable or obstruct development progress.
An Agenda for #EVERYchild 2015
UNICEF, January 2015
In this manifesto, UNICEF lays out actions necessary to ensure that the significant gains made for many children under the Millennium Development Goals are not lost but rather, are built upon and extended to all children as the global community adopts and implements the Sustainable Development Goals.
Human Development Report 2014
UNDP, December 2014
REPORT: Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience
The State of the World’s Children 2014 in Numbers: Every Child Counts
UNICEF report, 2014
Revealing disparities, advancing children’s rights
Brazil Public Opinion Monitor: Causes of Poverty Survey Results
IDS Evidence Report 83, July 2014
The Brazil Public Opinion Monitor (BPOM) is a longitudinal panel of 2,672 opinion leaders from across Brazil.
Children on the Run
UNHCR report, March 2014
The UN refugee agency is concerned at the increasing numbers of children in the Americas forced from their homes and families, propelled by violence, insecurity and abuse in their communities and at home.
Human Development Report 2013
UNDP, December 2013
REPORT: The Rise of the South - Human Progress in a Diverse World
Tax Abuses, Poverty and Human Rights
The Hague Institute for Global Justice, November 2013
The European launch of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) Task Force Report.
World Social Science Report 2013: Changing Global Environments
November 2013
Prepared by the International Social Science Council and co-published with UNESCO and the OECD. ISBN: 9789264203419 (PDF); 9789264203402 (print); DOI: 10.1787/9789264203419-en
Growth, employment and poverty in Africa
ODI Research Report, February 2013
Africa’s recent economic performance has been quite impressive. However, strong economic growth has not always delivered corresponding benefits in terms of poverty reduction, partly because it has failed to generate sufficient productive employment.
Millennium Development Goals Report 2012
UN, 2012
The 2012 MDG Report offers “the most comprehensive picture yet” on global progress towards the Goals, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said as he launched the report at the annual session of the UN Economic and Social Council.
Measuring Child Poverty
UNICEF Report Card 10: May 2012
This is the latest instalment of the UNICEF Office of Research Report Card series, aimed at focusing on the well-being of children in industrialized countries. It considers two views of child poverty in member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD): a measure of absolute deprivation, and a measure of relative poverty.
Impact of remittances on poverty in developing countries
UNCTAD, 2011
REPORT prepared under the UNCTAD/United Kingdom Department for International Development/Government of India Project on “Strategies and preparedness for trade and globalization in India”.
Human Development Report 2011
UNDP, December 2011
PUBLICATION: Sustainability and Equity - A Better Future for All
Child Poverty in East Asia and the Pacific: Deprivations and Disparities
UNICEF, October 2011
REPORT written by Equity for Children’s Director Alberto Minujin with UNICEF East Asia Pacific
Fostering Industrial Development in Africa in the New Global Environment
UNCTAD and UNIDO, July 2011
REPORT: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) say that an important factor in reducing poverty on the continent is industrialisation.
The Rural Poverty Report 2011
IFAD, December 2010
REPORT by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Knowledge Divides
UNESCO World Social Science Report, 2010
The report offers a first comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art of the social sciences in over a decade. The search for solutions to complex problems – environmental, societal, intercultural and economic – means that the demand for more and better social science is likely to become acute.
Human Development Report 2010
UNDP, November 2010
REPORT: The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development
How poor is 'poor'?: Towards a rights-based poverty line
nef, May 2010
REPORT by David Woodward for the New Economics Foundation (nef)
Recovery with a human face
UNICEF, March 2010
A co-ordinated UNICEF Strategy on Policy Advocacy and Partnerships for Children in Response to the Global Financial Crisis and Economic Slowdown.
The Role of the Churches in Poverty Reduction in Angola
Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) Report R 2010:1
Making education available is perhaps the most significant contribution the churches make to development in Angola. Most of the churches also run health posts and hospitals in remote areas of the country.
Social Protection and Poverty
UNRISD, January 2010
The report provides an overview of social protection, and an assessment of its potential contribution to addressing poverty and vulnerability in developing countries.
