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 . (Master PPD & APE, Paris School of Economics). Thomas . Piketty. Academic year 2013-2014 . Lecture 5: The structure of inequality: labor income. (Tuesday . January 7. th. . 2014). (check . on line. 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. “Has consumption inequality mirrored income inequality?”. by . Mark Aguiar and Mark Bils. . NBER . Economic Fluctuations and Growth Program Meeting. July 2011, Cambridge MA . Jonathan A. Parker. (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. Elisabetta Aurino. Partnership for Child Development. Imperial College London. & University of Oxford. Learning outcomes for this session. Importance of measurement for policy. Conceptual differences in the measurement of poverty, well-being and inequality. Lecture . 6: Income Inequality . and Growth. Overview. Measuring Inequality. Measuring Absolute Poverty. Why is high inequality bad?. Fields’ Typologies. Kuznets Curve. Policy options. 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, . Vito . Peragine. (University of Bari). Twelfth . Winter . School on . Inequality . and Social Welfare Theory. Alba . di. . Canazei. December 9-12, 2017. The . reading. list. 1. Equality of opportunity. -tion of income 31rst requires a good portrayal of that distribution 30ere are various ways to accomplish this including graphical and mathematical approaches that range from simplistic to more intric 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. 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. Martin . Ravallion. . Georgetown University ECON 156: Poverty and Inequality. Lecture notes to accompany . Ravallion’s. . The Economics of Poverty.. 2. . 5. Measuring inequality. (EOP Ch.5). . Kelsey Pukelis. 2022-02-11. Outline. Gini practice. Supply and demand framework . Extras: . Human capital vs. signaling models of the returns to education. Supply-Demand-Institutions framework. Unions and inequality.