From a forthcoming article on Leave No-one Behind: 2 cars racing, 1 ahead of the other. Slower car speeds up – that’s poverty reduction. But car in front speeds up faster – that’s widening inequality. Space between the cars grows – that’s being left behind. Poverty≠Inequality
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I’ll send you my thinkpiece. See what you make of it. I think an interesting question is whether LNB principle applies to all SDGs. I argue that if LNB just means end poverty it was hardly worth saying...
I thought LNB means focusing on those left furthest behind: people with disabilities, children, older people... ethnicity, gender, rural communities?
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I’m suggesting it should mean more than that. See car analogy. Differing points of view on that. Particularly re whether widening inequality is intrinsically a problem for all SDGs e.g. health and ed. My instinct is yes, but ethical problems either way
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The question is: does inequality matter per se, or do avoidable harms matter? If the former, then you would want to reduce the inequality even when you cannot reduce harms to the worst off. i.e. you would want to stop gains at the top e.g. curbing my learning, or dina's meds.
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Now you’re up to speed :-)
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Me too.
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