Carlos Gradín at the UN-ESCAP Expert Group Meetings

Building Forward Fairer – Economic Policies for an Inclusive Recovery and Development

Carlos Gradín at the UN-ESCAP Expert Group Meetings on Building Forward Fairer


The United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) holds a 3-day virtual conference to convene experts on social and economic policy for an inclusive recovery and inclusive development. The Expert Group Meetings invite speakers and discussants in an engagement which aims to shape UN-ESCAP's 2022 flagship report — the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific.

Carlos Gradín joins the expert group meetings on the third day in Session 6: 'Structural transformation: outlook and policies', 15:00 – 17:00 UTC+7 Bangkok to share key results from two WIDER Working Papers which analyse data on inequality from the World Income Inequality Database (WIID) and the new WIID Companions —datasets hosted by UNU-WIDER.

The entire programme is available here