One Day CGR Workshop on the Theory and Empirics of Inequality, Poverty and Mobility

29 October 2014

Time: 10:30am - 5:30pm
Venue: Dean Rees House, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London, London, EC1M 6BQ

Workshop Organiser: 

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London

Confirmed Speakers:

Erlend Berg, Department of Economics, University of Bristol
Can public works increase wages? Evidence from India, with Sambit Bhattacharyya, Rajasekhar Durgam and Manjula Ramachandra

Suman Seth, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford
Measuring and Decomposing Inequality among the Multidimensionally Poor using Ordinal Data: A Counting Approach, with Sabine Alkire

Gaston Yalonetzky, Leeds University Business School,  University of Leeds.
Pro-poorest poverty reduction with counting measures: the non-anonymous case, with Jose Gallegos

Catherine Porter, School of Management and Languages, Heriot-Watt University
The impact of drought and food prices on vulnerability in Ethiopia, with Ruth Hill

Dinner will follow at 6pm in a local restaurant

For further info please see http://ineqpovqmul.wix.com/ineqpovworkshop2014

To attend please email: Sanghamitra Bandyopadhy