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Understanding Poverty and Inequality
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- Intermediate Level
- Starts on December 31, 2023
Course details
Syllabus
Module 1: An Introduction to Poverty and Inequality
- Chapter 1: What do we mean by “poverty” & “inequality”?
- Chapter 2: Measurement, trends, and rates of change
- Chapter 3: How does economic growth affect poverty and inequality?
- Chapter 4: Case study: Poverty reduction in East Asia
- Chapter 5: Case study: Broad-based growth in Ethiopia
Module 2: Multidimensional Measures of Poverty
- Chapter 1: Multidimensional poverty vs. income poverty: why it matters
- Chapter 2: Measuring multidimensional poverty
- Chapter 3: The MPI information platform
- Chapter 4: Policy approaches to multidimensional poverty
Module 3: Explaining Global Inequality
- Chapter 1: Defining inequality
- Chapter 2: Measuring income inequality
- Chapter 3: Global versus within-country inequality
- Chapter 4: Winners and losers in the global economy
- Chapter 5: Convergence and poverty hotspots
- Chapter 6: Tackling inequality
Module 4: Poverty and Subjective Well-being
- Chapter 1: Introducing well-being
- Chapter 2: Measures of well-being
- Chapter 3: The U Curve
- Chapter 4: The Adaptation Conundrum and Progress Paradoxes
Module 5: Identity and Exclusion
- Chapter 1: Inequality, poverty, and social identity
- Chapter 2: Race and financial inequality
- Chapter 3: Gendered dimensions of poverty
- Chapter 4: Inequality and indigenous experience
- Chapter 5: Case study: Exclusion and inequality in South Africa
- Chapter 6: Case study: Policing, racism, and colorism in America and beyond
- Chapter 7: Case study: Worthy of investment: The devaluation of assets in Black American communities
Module 6: Poverty and Inequality, Today and Tomorrow
- Chapter 1: New inequalities of the 21st-century
- Chapter 2: Poverty, inequality, and the COVID-19 pandemic
- Chapter 3: Why climate matters for poverty and inequality
- Chapter 4: The evolution of the global middle class
- Chapter 5: Mobility, migration, and opportunity
- Chapter 6A: Fiscal policy, inequality and poverty in low and middle income countries
- Chapter 6B: Fiscal policy reforms: is UBI a good idea?
- Chapter 7: Cash transfers for poverty alleviation
Conclusion
Prerequisite
None
Instructors
Sabina Alkire
Director • Oxford Poverty and Human
Development Initiative
John McArthur
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for
Sustainable Development • Brookings Institution
Chandrika Bahadur
Director • SDG Academy
Homi Kharas
Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Center for Sustainable Development
Brookings Institution
Carol Graham
Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow and Research Director, Global Economy and Development
Brookings Institution
Makada Henry-Nickie
Robert and Virginia Hartley Fellow, Governance Studies
Brookings Institution
Caren Grown
Director, Gender • The World Bank
Alpa Shah
Professor of Anthropology • London
School of Economics and Political Science
Haroon Bhorat
Professor of Economics and Director of the Development Policy Research Unit
University of Cape Town
Rashawn Ray
David M. Rubenstein Fellow, Governance Studies
Brookings Institution
Andre Perry
Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program
Brookings Institution
Heriberto Tapia
Policy Specialist
Human Development Report Office
Amar Bhattacharya
Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Center for Sustainable Development
Brookings Institution
Dany Bahar
Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development
Brookings Institution
Nora Lustig
Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics & Director of the Commitment to Equity Institute
Tula…
Michael Cooke
Director of Research and Learning
Centre for Knowledge Equity
Wing Thye Woo
President, Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia and Director, Jeffrey
Sachs Center on Sustainable Develop…
Addisu Lashitew
David M. Rubenstein Fellow, Global Economy and Development
Brookings Institution
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