Inequality – Trends Worldwide and in India

UNU-WIDER and ICRIER organize an afternoon seminar on ‘Inequality - Trends Worldwide and in India’ in Delhi, 22 January 2016

Inequality - Trends worldwide and in India

Fri, 22 January 2016

UNU-WIDER and ICRIER organize an afternoon seminar on ‘Inequality - Trends Worldwide and in India’ in Delhi, 22 January 2016.

At the seminar, the latest version of UNU-WIDER’s World Income Inequality Database (WIID3.3), and two studies that utilize it will be presented and discussed. This research deals with global trends in inequality and redistribution across a diverse set of countries.

The second part of the seminar will deal with Indian experiences of inequality, launching the Indian part of an ongoing UNU-WIDER research project ‘Inequality in the Giants’. The research combines and harmonizes data from a number of complementary sources in order to generate a more comprehensive picture of the income distribution in the country. By supplementing consumption data with data from national accounts and other data sources, the research gives an overview of trends in inequality.

Register via email at rajat.kathuria@icrier.res.in.

Invitation and programme

Programme
14.00 Finn Tarp, Director, UNU-WIDER
Welcome
14.10 Jukka Pirttilä, Research Fellow, UNU-WIDER
The WIID, Version 3.3
14.20 Finn Tarp
Global Inequality: Trends and Issues
14.40 Jukka Pirttilä
Redistribution in the World: Causes and Consequences
15.00 Himanshu, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Rinku Murgai, the World Bank
Inequality in India: Trends and Issues
15.45 Saon Ray, ICRIER
Comments
15.55 Discussion
16.20 Shankar Acharya, ICRIER
Closing remarks
16.30

Tea

Inequality - Trends worldwide and in India

    

Team

Focal point: Finn Tarp

Research Fellow: Jukka Pirttilä

Communications: Annett Victorero

 

Resources

Presentation - Pirttilä

Presentation - Tarp

Presentation - Himanshu

Presentation - Himanshu and Murgai

     Photo Album - Flickr

Fri, 22 January 2016
Juniper Hall at India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, Delhi, India
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    Professor Tarp has four decades of experience in academic and applied development economics research and teaching. His field experience covers more than two decades of in-country work in 35 countries across Africa and the developing world more...

    Database
    WIID3.3

    WIID3 consists of a checked and corrected WIID2 and new estimates from National Survey statistics obtained from the respective country official websites, the Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean, Transmonee, Luxembourg Income Study database, OECD and Eurostat. The data cover new countries, and nearly 2000 new observations have been added.

    Video
    Inequality: What next?

    Parallel 3.1 of the 30th anniversary conference. Presenters: Ravi Kanbur, Jukka Pirttilä and Finn Tarp.

    Journal Article
    Response to Professor Stephen Jenkins’ comments on the World Income Inequality Database (WIID)

    Professor Stephen Jenkins (this issue) has conducted an extremely careful and insightful analysis of two datasets, WIID and SWIID. In this short response, we focus on his review of the WIID, maintained and published by UNU-WIDER in agreement with the...

    Jukka Pirttilä is a professor of public economics at the University of Helsinki and also works as a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. He has previously worked for the University of Tampere, Labour Institute for Economic Research...

    Project
    World inequality

    Theme: Inclusion

    The purpose of this project is to advance data collection, measurement, and research regarding the development of inequality in the world. A major focus in this research area is the maintenance, updating, and development of the World Income...

    Working Paper
    Global Interpersonal Inequality

    This paper discusses different approaches to the measurement of global interpersonal in equality. Trends in global interpersonal inequality during 1975-2005 are measured using data from UNU-WIDER’s World Income Inequality Database. In order to better...

    Project
    WIID – World Income Inequality Database

    Theme: Inclusion

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