Born Equal - how Reducing Inequality Could Give Our Children a Better Future

This report looks at how, despite major strides made towards poverty reduction and towards achieving the MDGs, increasing inequality in many countries in the last two decades has hampered greater progress. It outlines how some countries – through proven policies and interventions – have managed to reduce gross inequalities and deliver better outcomes for their children, laying stronger foundations for the future. The report starts to provide an overview of the progress made towards achieving the MDGs, and looks at one of its main blind-spots – inequality – which, we argue, has prematurely closed off opportunities to make further progress in reducing poverty and improving child well-being, especially in countries where inequality is most pervasive.