Science and Cocktails: The three eras of global inequality

Name: Science and Cocktails: The three eras of global inequality
Start: 2025-01-22T19:00:00+01:00
Location: DR Byen - Koncerthuset

Schedule

Wed, 22 Jan, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

DR Byen - Koncerthuset | Copenhagen , SK

Science & Cocktails is proud to present an episode with Branko Milanovic, world-renowned economist, Professor at the City University of New York, and author of many books including Global inequality: a new approach for the age of globalization, who will tell you about why global inequality seems to be decreasing but increasing within countries. All this after Søren Skov Orbit plays African-inspired modern jazz.
What is global inequality between citizens of the world? Why global inequality is falling and inequalities within countries are increasing? How is global inequality linked with migration? Why is the rise of China producing conflict?
Branko Milanovic will discuss the evolution in global inequality over the past two centuries, with the focus on the most recent 2008-2020 estimates and will draw political implications of the important changes that are taking place in the global distribution of income. In particular, it will focus on the rise of the middle class in Asia, income stagnation of the rich countries’ middle classes, reshuffling of global income positions between China and Asia in general, and the West, and the stability in the composition of the global top 1% of richest people in the world. Branko will discuss the possible future evolution of global inequality in which the roles of India and large African countries will become increasingly important.
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Event held in English with the generous support of the Novo Nordisk Foundation.