Workshop on Global and Local Perspectives on Economic Inequality

Time and place: May 7, 2010 11:00 AM - 06:00 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus

The workshop will take place on May 7 on the 10th floor of Eilert Sundts house, Blindern. Directions on how to get there


11.00 – 12.00 Branko Milanovic presents “Measuring Ancient Inequality”

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch

13.00 – 13.45 Erik Sørensen presents “Convergence? Cost-of-living indices for measuring global trends in inequality and poverty”

13.45 – 14.00 Short break

14.00 – 14.45 Paul Segal presents “Resource Rents, Redistribution, and Halving Global Poverty: The Resource Dividend”

14.45 – 15.00 Short break

15.00 – 15.45 Alain Trannoy presents “Detecting a change in wealth concentration without knowledge og wealth distribution”

15.45 – 16.15 Coffee

16.15 – 17.00 Erik Thorbecke presents The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke Class of Poverty Measures Twenty Five Years Later

17.00 – 17.15 Short break

17.15 – 18.00 Magne Mogstad presents “Robust Inequality Comparison”

19.00 - Informal dinner

 

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