The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Risk Academy, a Nexortium programmeHealth and SocietyDepartment of Human Development, Work and Social Policy
Poverty, inequality, exclusion, demographic change and urban vulnerability
Human development, poverty and inequality covers how risks and shocks affect people's health, livelihoods, education and capabilities across the life course, and how poverty, inequality and exclusion shape who is harmed.
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Twin figures for Delhi and its National Capital Territory core, counted from its layers at their stated dates.
For Human development, poverty and inequality: the faculty's twin of Delhi on the planet map, the globe and in 3D. Pick a generator, switch layers, run the instruments; every layer prints its provider and date.
Drag to move, right drag or Shift with a drag to turn and tilt, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows move, Shift with arrows turn and tilt, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.
Flat plan of the same data: relief as contours from the inline grid, the WorldPop count grid as cells, the mapped hospitals and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.
The map loads from this site as it nears the view (MapLibre 6.9.1, checked by hash).
The discipline teaches multidimensional poverty measurement after Alkire and Foster, vulnerability to poverty under shocks, demographic transition analysis, social cohesion, urban social vulnerability read on population grids such as the WorldPop 2020 count of the Delhi twin (a modelled estimate, never a count of the affected), and the human development index with its limits, with the Sendai Framework's social protection priority as the policy frame. A graduate can compute a multidimensional poverty index from survey data with stated dimensions and cut-offs, map urban vulnerability from a population grid and a hazard footprint with its estimates labelled, and write a social protection brief that names who a shock reaches first.
This area covers how risks and shocks affect people's health, livelihoods, education and capabilities across the life course, and how poverty, inequality and exclusion shape who is harmed. It is taught in the department of Human Development, Work and Social Policy, Faculty of Health and Society, through courses still to be authored and 3 more that also teach it.
8 subtopics, taught across its courses and labs.
Not yet taught by a course: Poverty dynamics and shocks.
Recent developments in human development, poverty and inequality, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026. Summaries are short readings of the source; follow the link for the full account.
News and research as they are published, per discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
The newest research, preprints, news and humanitarian reports for Human development, poverty and inequality, each with its source and date, load here. Open the research and news hub
No course has this as its primary discipline yet. It is listed so the gap stays visible.
The courses on its authoring list are named below.
Approved for authoringno enrolment and no achievement until authored and reviewed
These courses count in their own primary discipline and also teach this one; they do not count towards its achievement as primary courses.
| Aspect | In this area |
|---|---|
| Technology that helps | Digital public infrastructure and digital identity. |
| Risk technology creates | Exclusion, surveillance and the automation of work. |
| Lab | What you do in it | Courses using it |
|---|---|---|
| Exposure lab | Overlay people and assets with hazard footprints | 1 |
| Network lab | Build dependency graphs, find critical nodes, trace cascades | 1 |
| Map lab | Read hazard, exposure and boundaries on real maps | 1 |
Cited as places where the subject is practised; the institutions named are sources here, and Risk Academy hosts every course.
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