From Poverty to Power

Duncan GreenSwanwick

October 2012

Why 5 years?

• From Poverty to Power 2008 • Active Citizens and Effective States can change

the world• ‘How change happens’ as key theme• The nightmare of authorship• Three big shocks

Global Financial Crisis

Global food price spike

The Arab Spring

New thinking on development• The location of poverty: – LICs (external: aid, poverty)– MICs (internal: equity, social contract)– Fragile and Conflict Affected States

• Women for Development v Development for Women

New thinking cont’d

• The nature of poverty– Volatility, vulnerability and risk– Wellbeing and social harmony– Chronic v transitory poverty

• Political context – Multipolar World > the G20– Reaffirmation of the National

New thinking cont’d• Churning Demography – peak child; migration; youth and age bulges; – North->South issues; urbanization

• Waves of Technology

And a big rethink on the environment

A SAFE AND JUST SPACE FOR HUMANITY

FALLING FAR BELOW THE SOCIAL FOUNDATION

End hunger for all: 3% of global food supply

Electricity for all: 1% of global CO2 emissions

End income poverty for all:0.2% of global income

ENDING POVERTY: NO PRESSURE ON THE PLANET

So what did FP2P get right/wrong?• Active citizens and effective states • ‘The national’ > global, but......– Climate change/boundaries a game changer

(and a present not future threat)– Financial system remains a huge threat

• History happens faster than you expect• How change happens is next book

Publication date: 23rd Oct 2012

Pre-order your copy now from www.developmentbookshop.com/fp2p

“In telling us what can be achieved byordinary people through organised

action, this book generates hope even as it enhances understanding of what

is involved in the removal of poverty.”Amartya Sen

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