Tracking and Tackling Rising Inequality

Interesting forthcoming session;

Rising inequality and stagnating growth have led to a resurgence of interest in questions about the distribution of income, saving, and wealth and a renewed appreciation of the benefits of integration of micro and macro data. At the same time, quality problems with survey data are growing. The session will investigate what we can learn from the existing distributional data, potential new approaches to collecting and using distributional data, and strategies for improving the availability and quality of distributional data.
Chair:

Shaida Badiee, ‎Managing Director and Co-founder, Open Data Watch

Speaker:

Sabina Alkire, Director, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, and Professor of Economics, George Washington University

Discussants:

Pali Lehohla, Director General of Statistics South Africa

Conchita D’Ambrosio, Professor of Economics at University of Luxembourg