Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies, International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science
Panel
Vegard Iversen, Professor of Development Economics, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich | The state of knowledge about social mobility in the developing world Divya Vaid, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University | Ethnographic insights on social mobility Kunal Sen, Director, UNU-WIDER | Directions for research practice, knowledge gaps, and policy support
What do we know about social mobility in societies in the Global South?
A new book, Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Concepts, Methods, and Determinants, produced by UNU-WIDER and edited by Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna, and Kunal Sen and published by Oxford University Press offers students, researchers, and practitioners the tools needed to study social mobility in the Global South. In this panel discussion chaired by the Amartya Sen Chair at the London School of Economics, Fransisco H.G. Ferreira and hosted by the University of Greenwich, authors of the book will discuss how their pathfinding work provides a platform for policy to enhance social mobility and move beyond poverty and inequality reduction goals towards the building of more equal and successful societies.
This event is organized in partnership with the University of Greenwich, London.
Social mobility is critical to major global goals, those enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals and to the broader goals of development. Yet, little attention has been given to a serious study of social mobility in developing countries to...
Social mobility is critical to major global goals, those enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals and to the broader goals of development. Yet, little attention has been given to a serious study of social mobility in developing countries to...
The volume, Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Concepts, Methods and Determinants, brings together leading scholars from several disciplines to advance research practice on social mobility. Three sets of motivations guide this joint effort...
Promoting social mobility is an essential task of development, and a multi-faceted one. Precarious livelihoods are widespread. Containing downward mobility is an important precondition for sustaining upward mobility. Policies of human capital...
Social mobility — defined as the ability to move from a lower to a higher level of education or occupational status, or from a lower to a higher social class or income group — is the hope of economic development and the mantra of a good society...