Debating inequality at Sciences Po, Paris with talented African, European and other international students and faculty.
Global and within-country inequality will be one of the most hotly debated topics internationally this year. We need to look at three types of inequality, inequality of incomes and consumption, inequality of opportunity, and inequality of wealth. While global income inequality has declined in the past three decades due to progress in China and India, income inequality has increased within 53 percent of all countries and inequality of wealth has certainly increased.
In many countries, most of the gains in income have gone to the top one percent. Latin America and Africa are the two most unequal regions. Strong job-creating economic growth along with a stronger action on taxation and redistribution, social safety nets, investment in human capital, and active labour market policies can help ensure no one is left behind.
With Dean of Sciences Po former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta, Lakhdar Brahimi former UN envoy for Syria, Maria Nowak founder ADIE at Sciences Po session on Inequality
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