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WIDER Annual Lecture 10 - Global Patterns of Income and HealthPeople in poor countries live shorter lives than people in rich countries so that, if we take income and health together, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone.
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WIDER Annual Lecture 9 - The World is not Flat: Inequality and Injustice in our Global Economy
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WIDER Annual Lecture 8 - Rethinking Growth StrategiesThis lecture, ‘Rethinking Growth Strategies’, focuses on growth because we can all agree that achieving sustained poverty reduction around the world will be practically impossible unless economic growth is achieved in poor countries.
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WIDER Annual Lecture 7 - Global Labor Standards and Local FreedomsThe 2003 Annual Lecture was given by Professor Kaushik Basu of Cornell University on the topic of ‘Global Labour Standards and Freedom of Choice’, and took place at Ritarihuone in Helsinki on 10 November.
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WIDER Annual Lecture 6 - Winners and Losers in Two Centuries of GlobalizationProfessor Jeffrey Williamson of Harvard University accepted the invitation to deliver the 2002 Annual Lecture entitled ‘Winners and Losers in Two Centuries of Globalization’. It took place at the University of Copenhagen on 5 September 2002.
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WIDER Annual Lecture 5 - Horizontal Inequality: A Neglected Dimension of DevelopmentThis lecture will focus on horizontal inequality, i.e. inequality among culturally defined groups (e.g. the Malays and Chinese in Malaysia, Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda, or Catholic and Protestants in N.Ireland), and the implications this has for...
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WIDER Annual Lecture 4 - Globalization and Appropriate GovernanceGlobalization has come in for indiscriminate attack from critics who do not distinguish between different types of globalization (e.g. freer trade, freer capital flows, freer direct investment, and freer immigration) or between very different but...
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WIDER Annual Lecture 3 - Is Rising Income Inequality Inevitable? A Critique of the Transatlantic ConsensusMany people believe that rising income inequality is inevitable. It is the result of forces, such as technological change, over which we have no control, or of developments such as globalisation, which are irreversible.
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WIDER Annual Lecture 2 - More Instruments and Broader Goals: Moving toward the Post-Washington ConsensusProfessor Joseph E. Stiglitz discussed the new thinking in development economics that goes beyond the Washington consensus about macroeconomic fundamentals and examine how the government can act as a complement to markets.
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WIDER Annual Lecture 1 - The New Institutional Economics and its contribution to improving our understanding of the transition problemAlthough a growing number of emerging democracies and other systems are turning to free market policies to spur their economic growth, many of them are finding that these policies are not always successful.