PPT-Income Inequality: Challenges for Measurement and Policy

Martin Ravallion 1 Public Lecture Ungku Aziz Center for Development Studies University of Malaya January 29 2019 Inequality is getting much attention globally Part A How are we doing . st. century policy. Branko. . Milanovic. March 2011. Email: . bmilanovic@worldbank.org. Based on the book . Worlds Apart. , 2005 . and . The Haves and the Have-Nots. , 2010 and other . updates. Main points. (Master PPD & APE, Paris School of Economics). Thomas Piketty. Academic year 2014-2015 . Lecture 5: The structure of inequality: labor income. (. Tuesday November 4. th. 2014). (check . on line. It’s happening, . i. t matters, and . we can do something about it.. Jared Bernstein (. bernstein@cbpp.org. ) . Ben Spielberg (. bspielberg@cbpp.org. ) . The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. GINI Coefficients. Author: Zack Beamer. How severe is income inequality?. How can this be measured?. Ratio of CEO to Worker pay. †:. 354 to 1. Workers: $34,645. S&P 500 CEOs: $12,259,894. Is this a rigorous method of measuring inequality?. Going Backwards in the Measurement of Human Development?. Pedro Conceição. Chief-Economist, Regional Bureau for Africa, UNDP. Second Conference on Measuring Progress. What do we Talk About when we Talk About Inequality?. Mike Savage. The ‘inequality space’ . Concerns about inequality have dramatically surged into public interest over past decade, led by economists Stiglitz, Atkinson, Piketty.. Considerable academic investment in cross-disciplinary research in this area, . 1. Alan Berube. UNLV/Brookings Mountain West. April . 6, . 2016. 2. The Brookings Metro Program focuses on the well-being of major U.S. cities and . metros with . active . work in . 40 regions and states. Causes and Consequences. Eshragh Motahar. Fall 2016. Introduction. What do we mean by inequality. Income (pre-tax, post-tax), Wealth. Is it inevitable. Historical context. What is new?. Why should we care about it . David Bell, David Comerford and David Eiser. Overview. Inequality and social justice central to the independence debate. This paper considers the effectiveness of different policy levers in influencing inequality. class. and . status. How popular myths about . human nature . and . capabilities. are used to justify inequality. How we can tackle inequality and why it is vital we do so if we are to make the . transition to sustainable wellbeing. . in. . Indonesia. Takahiro Akita. Master of Public Management and Administration (MPMA), . Rikkyo. University. December 5, 2017. Popular Measures of Inequality: . Why do we use the following inequality measures?. Walter . Scheidel. (Stanford University). Argument. Violence has been the single most important means of leveling wealth and income inequality in human history. 4 principal mechanisms:. Mass mobilization war. Introduction and Overview. June 1, 2015 / 9am to 12pm. Janet C. Gornick. Director, LIS (Luxembourg). Director, LIS Center (New York). Professor of Political Science and Sociology, . Graduate . Center, City University of New York . Issues to be . addressed by the HLEG subgroup on income and wealth inequality. Thomas . Piketty. Paris School of Economics. OECD, . January 16. th. 2014. « W. ork. under the “income and wealth inequality” theme would take stock of...