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URL:https://www.ukfiet.org/events/reducing-poverty-and-improving-wellbeing
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SUMMARY:Reducing poverty and improving wellbeing: time for a new ‘human' 
 face?
DESCRIPTION:28 September 13:00 - 14:00 BST\nRegister for the webinar here\n
 In the past three decades\, development and poverty reduction goals have i
 ncreasingly been framed around a human-centred approach. Rather than aimin
 g for narrow goals of economic growth and income-based poverty reduction\,
  efforts have adopted a more multidimensional stance that acknowledges the
  range of needs that underpin quality of life – as evidenced by the Sust
 ainable Development Goals (SGDs).\nAt the same time\, policy interventions
  are often devoid of a ‘human face’. The search for cost-effective\, a
 ffordable\, and scalable solutions has led to a highly technocratic approa
 ch that is premised on largely linear and singular understandings of pover
 ty and how to escape it. Policies tend to overlook the heterogeneity of pe
 ople’s needs and experiences\, underestimate the increasingly precarious
  context in which they are trying to shape their wellbeing\, and rarely ac
 knowledge or build on the human connections that are fundamental to living
  well. In addition\, efforts to reduce poverty tend to be narrowly focused
  on changing undesirable behaviours of people in poverty with little focus
  on the wider socioeconomic structures\, barriers and discourse that drive
  poverty.\nIn this seminar\, Dr Keetie Roelen argues that it’s time for 
 a new ‘human face’ in policies that seek to reduce poverty and improve
  wellbeing. Building on research by Dr Roelen and others\, including in Ba
 ngladesh\, Burundi\, and Haiti\, Dr Roelen proposes that efforts that take
  greater account of heterogeneity\, precarity\, human connection\, and wid
 er poverty narratives aren’t merely more dignified and respectful but ca
 n also galvanise impact and reduce inequality.\nDr Keetie Roelen is Senior
  Research Fellow and Co-Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Glo
 bal Development.
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