The Human Development Report Office, LIS, the Stone Center at the City University of New York (CUNY), UNU-WIDER and the World Inequality Lab will host a symposium on Measuring Inequality in the 21st Century. The 2-day event will be held 28-29 March, at the UN Headquarters in New York.
The Symposium will revisit the frontier debate on inequality measurement to contribute towards a basic consensus on the issues and priorities to guide policy makers, inform intergovernmental consultations regarding the state of measures of inequality in the world, and push a collaborative agenda to refine concepts, data and methodological approaches on inequality.
- Achim Steiner, administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
- Paul Krugman, distinguished professor of economics at The Graduate Center, CUNY; senior scholar, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Panelists
- Mario Cimoli, deputy executive secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
- Lucas Chancel, co-director, World Inequality Lab
- Janet Gornick, director, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at The Graduate Center, CUNY; director, US Office of LIS
- Nora Lustig, director, Commitment to Equity Institute at Tulane University
- Kunal Sen, director, UNU-WIDER