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The Relationship between Inequality and Poverty: mechanisms and policy options
LSE Works public lecture
This lecture examines the empirical relationship between economic inequality and
poverty across countries and over time, paying attention to different
measurement issues. It then considers a range of potential mechanisms driving
this relationship and explores policy options.
Eleni Karagiannaki is a Research Fellow at the Centre for
Analysis of Social Exclusion at LSE. Her research focuses on income and wealth
inequality and poverty and socio-economic mobility.
Abigail McKnight is an Associate Professorial Research Fellow
and Associate Director of Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at LSE where
she has worked since 1999. Her research interests include inequality,
poverty, wealth, social mobility and employment policy.
Further information about this event
News Posted: 16 December 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Government and Public Services in an Age of Fiscal Consolidation:
Comparative views from France and the UK
Dr Polina Obolenskaya, Dr Bert Provan and Professor Kitty Stewart are presenting their research at a conference jointly organised by Universities of Paris 1 and Paris 3, together with Policy Network in London and several other institutional partners, on the subject of "Government and Public Services in an Age of Fiscal Consolidation: Comparative Views from France and the United Kingdom".
The programme includes plenary sessions as well as workshops on governance and finance, and sectoral studies (energy, employment, education, housing, and health). A round table on Brexit will close the conference on Saturday 3 December.
News Posted: 21 November 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Oriana Bandiera elected fellow of the Econometrics Society
STICERD director, Professor Oriana Bandiera, has been elected a fellow of the
prestigious Econometric Society. Professor Bandiera holds a PhD from Boston
College. Alongside her role as STICERD director, she co-directs the State
Capabilities programme at the International Growth Centre.
News Posted: 09 November 2016 [ Back to the Top]
2016 Philip Leverhulme Prize awarded to
Dr. Camille Landais
Dr Camille Landais is one of two LSE recipients of this year's Philip
Leverhulme Prize. The Prize is awarded each year to exceptionally strong
researchers who have already won international recognition for their work, and
whose careers show remarkable promise.
The Philip Leverhulme Prize is awarded by the
Leverhulme Trust in memory of Philip
Leverhulme, the Third Viscount Leverhulme and grandson of the Trust's founder,
businessman and philanthropist William Hesketh Leverhulme.
News Posted: 03 November 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Charles Booth Centenary Lectures
III Public Lectures, November 3rd 2016
This event, which coincides with the LSE Research Festival 2016, is part
of a wider LSE celebration of pioneering social scientist Charles Booth, who
died in 1916, and whose original survey into life and labour in London is held
in the LSE Library.
Booth's investigation of poverty in London provides a key example both of
the creative development of social science and of the ways in which research may
be used to have a positive impact on society. The event brings together a group
of scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the substance of Booth's
ideas as well as his broader legacy for the social sciences and for contemporary
social analysis.
The event is free and open to all on a first come first serve basis. If
you wish to register your interest in advance, send an e-mail to inequalities.institute@lse.ac.uk.
The event programme is listed below. Drop in for one or several sessions.
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Session 1: 2.15-3.00pm - Welcome and Introduction: Charles
Booth and the Social Sciences Speaker: Prof
Mary Morgan (LSE Economic History Dept) Chair: Prof
Nicola Lacey (LSE Law Dept and International Inequalities
Institute) Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building.
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Session 2: 3.15-4.15 - Economy, Work, Pay, Class - Then and Now
Speakers: Profs Alan
Manning (LSE Economics Dept), Stephen
Machin (LSE Centre for Economic Performance), Fran
Tonkiss (LSE Sociology Dept) Chair: Prof
Nicola Lacey Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic
Building
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4.15-4.45 Coffee break
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Session 3: 4.45-5.45 Housing, Health, Personal Circumstances,
Criminality - Then and Now Speakers: Dr
Suzi Hall (LSE Cities), Profs Anne
Power (LSE Social Policy Dept, LSE Housing and
Communities), Emily
Grundy (LSE Sociology Dept) and Tim
Newburn (Social Policy Dept) Chair: Dr
Suki Ali (LSE Sociology Dept) Venue: Sheikh Zayed
Theatre, New Academic Building
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Session 4: 6.00-7.00pm: "The Chain: How Inequality Works"
Speaker: Prof
John Hills (LSE International Inequalities Institute and
Social Policy Dept) Chair: Prof
Julia Black Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
This lecture will trace some of the ways in which rising inequalities in
income and wealth and the policies associated with them are driving the housing
crisis for those at the margins.
For a map of campus, see here.
News Posted: 24 October 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Government plans will reallocate nursery funding
from poorer to richer children
The government’s grammar schools
plans have been covered widely
with evidence presented
that in practice, academic selection increases educational inequality, and
strengthens the relationship between social background and attainment. In contrast,
plans to change the funding system for
nurseries and pre-schools have received little attention. But these reforms
actually pose a greater threat to social mobility than proposals to expand
grammar schools, argue
Kitty Stewart and
Ludovica Gambaro for the LSE British Politics and Policy
blog.
continue reading
News Posted: 29 September 2016 [ Back to the Top]
New Global Welfare Futures seminar series
LSE Department of Social Policy
All lectures will
be held in Wolfson Theatre, New
Academic Building, LSE.
Maps here
Can the Welfare States survive?
Speaker: Prof Andrew Gamble (Cambridge/
Sheffield) Tues
27th Sept, 6pm
The Return of the Family? Variation across
post-industrial societies
Speaker: Prof Mary Brinton (Harvard)
Tues 25th Oct, 6pm
Global Capitalism and the Rise of
Inequality: re-embedding (labour) markets and employment relations ?
Speaker: Prof Lane Kenworthy (UC San Diego)
Wed 9th Nov, 6pm
Re-imagining Civil Society Engagement:
in search of social innovation
Speaker: Prof Maurizio Ferrera (Milan)
Wed 23rd Nov, 2pm
News Posted: 22 September 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Climate Change, Inequality and Social Policy
A new interdisciplinary seminar series starting in Autumn 2016
Three
institutes in LSE are hosting a new
seminar series: the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the
Environment (GRI), the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) and
the new International Inequalities Institute (III). It will be chaired by Prof
Ian Gough, Visiting Professor at CASE and Associate at Grantham.
The overlap
between environmental pressures and degradation on the one hand and the ‘social
dimension’ of inequality and human wellbeing on the other hand is of immense
importance but under-researched. There is a yawning gap to be filled by a
coherent, exciting and interdisciplinary research agenda. This series of
seminars will explore and develop that agenda.
The seminars
will be focused in two ways: on global warming and climate change rather than a
wider range of environmental problems, and on the UK and other rich countries -
the ‘welfare states’ of the OECD, roughly the same as and the Kyoto Annex II
countries.
The first six
seminars of the series will take place on:
Thursday 3rd November
2016, 12.00-13.30 with
Prof Ian Gough
link to recording and presentation slides
of this event.
Thursday 1st December 2016,
12.00-13:30 'Carbon and Inequality: from Measurement to Policy' with
Lucas Chancel, Research Fellow New
Prosperity, IDDRI Paris (Sciences Po) and Dario Kenner, Visiting Fellow at the
Global Sustainability Institute based (Anglia Ruskin University)
recording and presentation slides from
this event.
Thursday 16th February 2017 The Health Co-benefits of the low carbon
economy
Professor Paul
Wilkinson, London School of Medicine and Tropical Hygiene
Can the co-benefits of climate action help to
deliver social equity?
Dr Alison Smith, Environmental Change
Institute, University of Oxford
Can local carbon reduction programmes work
in disadvantaged areas?
Dr Ruth Mayne,
Oxfam GB and Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Sign up for this seminar
Thursday 9th March 2017
Carbon and Time
Low carbon fun?
A time use perspective towards sustainabilityProfessor Angela Druckman (Centre
for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, Universityof Surrey)
The case for a
shorter working week Anna Coote (Principal Fellow at the New Economics
Foundation and the author of 'Time on our Side')
Sign up for this seminar
Thursday 27th April 2017 Would income redistribution result in higher
aggregate emissions? Lutz Sager, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the
Environment, LSE.
Sign up for this seminar
Thursday 25th May 2017 Postgrowth and Wellbeing
Professor Max
Koch, Lund University and Dr Milena Buchs, University of Leeds
Sign up for this seminar
A sandwich lunch and refreshments are
provided.
News Posted: 22 August 2016 [ Back to the Top]
North-South economic and social divide still growing
suggests new CASE and University of Manchester research
The analysis suggests that the economic divergence between London and
the Northern regions in England continues to grow. The gaps are also
growing in relation to a number of social outcomes, such as education and
health, with improvement in these outcomes in London being in line with economic
conditions in the capital bouncing back to pre-recession levels or beyond while
the North lags behind. But economic growth in London has not resulted in
reduced poverty or inequality. The full paper is available here:
Pulling in the Same Direction? Economic and Social Outcomes in London and the
North of England Since the Recession,
by Polina Obolenskaya, Ruth Lupton and Bert Provan.
News Posted: 02 August 2016 [ Back to the Top]
North-South economic and social divide still growing, but economic growth
in London has not resulted in reduced poverty or inequality
News Posted: 02 August 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Our research for the Papworth Trust and Habinteg
highlights a hidden housing market for 1.8m disabled people
New
findings show a significant demand for accessible housing to rent and buy.
Conducted by LSE Housing and Communities (CASE) and Ipsos MORI, the report,
The
hidden housing market, uncovers a fresh view that challenges assumptions
about the potential for disabled people to buy their own home. The report also
sheds light on the wider appeal of homes that deliver higher quality accessible
features.
Headline findings:
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1.8 million disabled people have an unmet housing need – 580,000 of whom are
of working age (there are 11.6 million disabled people in the UK)
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Of the 1.8 million disabled people needing accessible homes, 56% are home
owners with 39% having incomes in the top half of the income distribution
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19% of the British public would most favour moving to a different property
specifically designed or adapted to enable them to live independently in
later life
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Impact of unmet housing need for accessible housing – disabled people living
in inaccessible homes are four times more likely to be unemployed.
The report also demonstrates some of the profound effects on working age
disabled people of not having their need for accessible housing met, including
an impact on health and wellbeing, the ability to engage in community life and,
crucially, the employment market.
For more information see the full CASE research report
No Place
Like An Accessible Home: Quality of life and opportunity for disabled people
with accessible housing needs.
News Posted: 01 August 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Our research for the Papworth Trust and Habinteg
highlighted a hidden housing market for 1.8m disabled people
News Posted: 01 August 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Economia Magazine
'Europe's New Industrial Revolution'
News Posted: 31 July 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Tania Burchardt to become Director of CASE
from September 2016
After over 18 years in the role, John Hills will be stepping-down as
Director of CASE from mid-September, reflecting the increasing demands on his
time as Co-Director of the recently established LSE International Inequalities
Institute.
Tania Burchardt, currently Deputy Director will become Director of CASE.
Tania will be supported by Abigail McKnight, Kitty Stewart and Polly Vizard as
Associate Directors, while Anne Power will continue to direct the LSE Housing
and Communities Group.
CASE colleagues are delighted that John will continue to be involved in
an advisory function as Chair of CASE and through continuing research as part of
the centre.
News Posted: 08 July 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Three new major evidence reviews for the
European Commission are now available
Over the last year or so we have been conducting three major evidence reviews
for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for
Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion.
We were given the opportunity to present findings to the EU’s Social Protection
Committee, the European Social Policy Network and at a half-day seminar at the
European Commission. We are pleased to inform you that these evidence
reviews have just been published by the Commission and are free to download.
Evidence review - Creating More Equal Societies: What Works?
by Abigail McKnight, Magali Duque and Mark Rucci
The aim
of
this review is to assess the effectiveness of
education, wage setting institutions and welfare states in reducing inequality.
Education both empowers people and provides them with tradeable skills to secure
a decent income – greater equality in individuals’ ability to generate income in
the labour market is key to producing more equitable outcomes.
Evidence shows that
imbalances in power result in some workers being underpaid while others are
overpaid. Collective wage bargaining
and minimum wages
have proved to be successful
in reducing wage inequality.
Curbs
on the
power of
top executives,
power which has allowed them to
take an increasing share of the wagebill to the
detriment of other workers
and form a politically powerful elite,
need further development.
Welfare states
need to evolve
to meet the
challenges of ‘new inequalities’
and changing employment landscapes, but are essential now and
will continue to be essential in the future
to help individuals redistribute income over their own lives as well as between
the rich and poor.
Evidence review - Low pay and in-work poverty: preventative measures and
preventative approaches
by Abigail McKnight, Kitty Stewart, Sam Mohun Himmelweit
and Marco Palillo
The evidence
presented in
this review
highlights the benefits of preventing individuals entering low paid work as they
can become trapped in low paid jobs or end up cycle between unemployment and
precarious, low quality work. In countries
where collective wage bargaining institutions
declined
or even disappeared in the latter part of the 20th Century,
governments have been forced to piece together
a number of policies
to replace the role they played in creating wage floors and reducing inequality.
These include
minimum wages
and (costly)
in-work benefits.
Reducing the incidence of low pay also has the benefit of reducing in-work
poverty.
However, the review emphasises that
an effective anti-poverty strategy requires a
portfolio of additional measures
as well – not all low paid workers are living in poor households and not all
workers living in poor households are low paid. These additional measures
include improving job stability and quality,
increasing
maternal employment
and encouraging greater sharing of paid and unpaid work within the household,
and – crucially –
supporting families with children
through universal
child benefits and/or tax credits
to lower earning households. The role of the latter is particularly important,
both because of the higher incidence of in-work poverty in households with
children, and because of the long-term consequences of growing up in poverty for
children’s lives and opportunities.
Evidence review - The Strength of the Link between Income Support and Activation
by Abigail McKnight and Arnaud Vaganay
The
integration of the administration of income
support claims and public employment services
in many countries
has had a number of benefits
which include cost savings, reinforcement of the link between benefit receipt
and the need to find work, and easier access to labour market programmes.
The
effectiveness of linking activation with income support receipt depends on the
suitability of the activation programme. The
review
concludes that
in the short-term activation programmes that
‘push’ jobseekers into work may appear to be more effective
than programmes that invest in the employability of jobseekers.
However,
in the longer term
there is a greater tendency for jobseekers pushed to take the first available
job to cycle between unemployment and precarious forms of employment while
programmes that seek to improve the job match
and enhance the skills of jobseekers result in better longer term employment
outcomes.
News Posted: 01 July 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Latest in the series of blogs for Trust for London
Inequalities and disadvantage in London – focus on ethnicity
The new London Mayor
Sadiq Khan was elected in May on a platform of fairness, with commitments to a
more equal London, the creation of a new economic fairness unit within the GLA
and tackling low pay.
In this latest blog we look at disparities in key economic outcomes
(unemployment, youth unemployment, low pay, income and wealth) in London by
ethnic group.
The findings are drawn
from our comprehensive report on inequality and disadvantage in London published
last year,
The Changing Anatomy of Economic Inequality in
London (2007-2013). The report provided a detailed
picture of what happened to different population groups in London in the wake of
the crisis and downturn. In a series of blogs we are expanding that analysis by
‘drilling down’ into different aspects of inequality in London.
Other blogs in this
series:
Inequalities and disadvantage in London – focus on Disability
News Posted: 22 June 2016 [ Back to the Top]
LSE Housing and Communities Book Launch
Cities for a Small Continent: International Handbook of City Recovery by Professor Anne Power
LSE Housing and Communities, with support from La Fabrique de la Cité invites you to the launch of Anne Power's latest publication 'Cities for a Small Continent'. This book draws together 10 years of ground-level research into the ways Europe's ex-industrial cities are treading new paths in sustainability. Anne Power uses seven case-study cities to detail how and why city change happens, and how cities in the world's smallest, most crowded, most city-loving continent can build a more viable, balanced and sustainable urban future.
To purchase a copy of Cities for a Small Continent, please visit the Policy Press website
Listen to the podcast:
Chaired by Professor Ricky Burdett, this event will explore the causes and consequences of urban challenges in post-industrial European cities and the potential that their model offers in creating more sustainable cities. Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution will situate this study in a US-context whilst Anne Power will set out the European perspective.
Speakers confirmed are:
- Professor Ricky Burdett, LSE Cities
- Professor Anne Power, LSE Housing and Communities and Professor of Social Policy
- Bruce Katz, Centennial Scholar at the Brookings Institution
Cities for a Small Continent will be available to buy at the event. There will also be an opportunity to have your book signed by Anne Power and Bruce Katz.
The event is free but booking is essential. Please RSVP to lsehousingandcommunities@lse.ac.uk to register your interest.
Old Theatre, Old Building, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 3PH
LSE Housing Special Event
News Posted: 24 May 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Tackling Extreme Poverty
New research work reveals ways to break the poverty trap
The World Bank
published a
blog on the
work lead by STICERD director Professor Oriana Bandiera in collaboration with the
IGC, UCL
and
BRAC, on the subject of reducing extreme poverty.
Markus Goldstein, who is lead economist in the Office of Chief Economist in
the Africa Region at the World Bank, highlights the most important contributions that the recently
revised paper
"Labor Markets and
Poverty in Village Economies" makes to the question of lifting the ultra
poor.
The research, which looks at BRAC's Targeting the Ultra-Poor program
implemented in Bangladesh, shows that: (i) the poor are able to take on the work activities of the non-poor but face
barriers to doing so, and, (ii) one-off interventions that remove these barriers
lead to sustainable poverty reduction.
In his
blog, Goldsteing concludes that Professor Bandiera and her
colleagues "indicate a sustainable (and cost effective – see the paper for the
numbers) way to break poverty traps and map a clear and
sustainable trajectory out of poverty".
News Posted: 07 April 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Sanctions and inequalities: what do we know and need to know about the impact of benefit sanctions
on particular groups?
News Posted: 16 March 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Women in Economics
Why the odds remained stacked against female economists
Today Women's Day is celebrated all around the world. It is a day when women
are recognised for their achievements regardless of any divisions, whether
national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political. Despite huge
advancements, women still struggle to obtain parity and equality in certain
fields.
"For many practitioners and researchers in the field of economics, part of
the problem seems to be within the education process itself. From the outset,
women are under-represented in economics."
In an
article published by Bloomberg Business, STICERD's director Professor Oriana
Bandiera, explains women seem to "simply dissapear". She believes the demands of
academia could be one of the reasons why many potentially brilliant female
economists chose not to follow this path.
International
Women's Day first emerged from the activities of labour movements at the
turn of the twentieth century in North America and across Europe.
News Posted: 08 March 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Special event
2016 Development Debate:
Can Africa Industrialise?
The Department
of International Development at the LSE will be hosting the 2016 Development
Debate on the topic Can Africa Industrialise?, featuring
micro-economist Professor John Sutton and political economist Professor Robert
Wade.
The event, which is organised by the Development Management Programme, will
take place on Monday 7th March at 6pm at the LSE (Clement
House, room 5.02).
John Sutton is the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at the
London School of Economics, and Director of STICERD’s Economics of Industry
programme.
Robert Wade is Professor of Political Economy and Development
at the LSE.
Prof. Sutton's
Enterprise Map Project aims at providing a detailed profile of industries and of
leading industrial companies in each of several countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
The first four volumes on Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia are now available
here:
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/sutton/
News Posted: 07 March 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Award
PhD affiliate Florian Blum awarded funding by MIT
Florian Blum, PhD student at the Department of Economics and STICERD, was
awarded funding from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
to investigate the effect of central price-cap regulation on the quantity and
price of service provision within the public services.
The project will also estimate the optimal price-cap that maximises consumer
welfare.
News Posted: 04 March 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Date for your diary: 27th April
What was the impact of the Coalition government on social policy outcomes and welfare governance?
Venue: London School of Economics, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Wednesday 27th April 2016, 3.00 - 6.00 pm, followed by a drinks reception
Speakers: Professor Hugh Bochel, Professor Sir John Hills, Professor Ruth
Lupton, Professor Martin Powell, Dr Polly Vizard
Respondents: Nick
Timmins (The
King's Fund, Institute for Government, former public policy editor at the
Financial Times) and Peter
Taylor Gooby (Research
Professor of Social Policy at the University of Kent)
Chair:
Professor Coretta Phillips
This event will launch two new complementary publications analysing UK social
policy from 2010 to 2015. Hugh Bochel and Martin Powell will introduce The
Coalition government and social policy: restructuring the welfare state and
Ruth Lupton will present on the key findings from Social
Policy in a Cold Climate: policies and their consequences since the crisis. Polly
Vizard and Martin Powell will jointly present on “What happened in health
services? John Hills will then lead a short commentary to be followed by a
discussion led by the respondents Nick Timmins and Peter Taylor-Gooby. There
will then be an opportunity for questions from the audience.
Hugh Bochel is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Lincoln.
John Hills is Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, Director of the Centre
for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) and Co-Director of the International
Inequalities Institute at LSE.
Ruth Lupton is Professor of Education at the University of Manchester.
Martin Powell is Professor of Health and Social Policy, University of
Birmingham.
Coretta Phillips is An Associate Professor of Social Policy
at the LSE
Dr Polly Vizard is a Associate Professorial Research Fellow at CASE, LSE.
This event is free and open to all please register your interest by email to case@lse.ac.uk
News Posted: 03 March 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Child poverty measures: why academics and the House of Lords have challenged the government proposals
LSE British Politics and Policy blog by Kitty Stewart
This week the House
of Commons will be discussing the Welfare Reform and Work Bill once again.
Discussing the bill in January, the Lords decided that the government should
continue to track and report annually on the existing suite of four child
poverty indicators – which the Conservative government is seeking to abolish. In
their place, the government wants to report on an alternative set of “life
chances measures”, which will include education attainment at age 16 and
household worklessness. Kitty Stewart
argues that the government should listen to the House of Lords and to expert
opinion and retain the official child poverty measures.
Continue reading at LSE British Politics and Policy.
News Posted: 22 February 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Hardship and shame: what Thomas More's Utopia can teach us about modern social security
LSE British Politics and Policy blog post by John Hills
Thomas More’s
Utopia was published 500
years ago, in 1516, following discussions that had started in Antwerp the
previous year.
John Hills has been part of a European
research programme on contemporary poverty reduction in Europe co-ordinated by
Antwerp University, and was asked to reflect on connections between More’s fable
and today’s debates. Utopians would generally not behave badly, he writes. Their
behaviour was not reinforced by tangible incentives but by a cultural belief in
lifetime honours, after death rewards and punishment on one hand, and a fear of
being shamed if they behaved badly on the other. Today, in a blog for
LSE British Politics and Policy he explains, this balance has
disappeared as
the debate
on social security and anti-poverty strategy is dominated by worries about
incentives and disincentives.
News Posted: 22 February 2016 [ Back to the Top]
Award
Professor Sir Tony Atkinson wins prestigious Dan David Prize for work on poverty
The international Dan David Prize, headquartered at Tel Aviv University, was announced on 11 February and Professor Atkinson is one of three to receive a prize in the "Present" category. He shared the prize with Francois Bourguignon and James J. Heckman, all scholars of poverty and economic policy.
The organisers paid tribute to Professor Atkinson, saying that he "is a world leading scholar on poverty and equality, concerned with issues of social justice and the design of public policy. His work has focused on rich countries and he has been deeply involved in policy discussion in both Britain and Europe."
On hearing that he had been chosen as a recipient of the 'combatting poverty' dimension of the annual award, Professor Atkinson said:
"Poverty is one of our most urgent social issues, and is the cause of many of the challenges that the we all face today. World leaders have set ambitious targets to combat poverty, but these need to be matched by action. To be recognized for my work in proposing solutions to this problem - at home and globally - is a great honour."
Under the terms of the prize, laureates donate 10 percent of their prize money toward 20 doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships in their fields.
The prize, named after international businessman and philanthropist Dan David,
will be awarded on May 22nd.
Professor Atkinson's book "Inequality: What Can Be Done?" is
published
by Harvard University Press.
News Posted: 17 February 2016 [ Back to the Top]
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