Inequality

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How to Fix Economic Inequality?

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How to Fix Economic Inequality?

Peterson Institute
November 17, 2020
Dani Rodrik
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Combating Inequality: Rethinking Policies to Reduce Inequality in Advanced Economies

Conference coordinators: Olivier Blanchard (PIIE) and Dani Rodrik (Harvard University)
October 17, 2019 9:00 AM to October 18, 2019 5:15 PM
Speeches & Papers

We Have the Tools to Reverse the Rise in Inequality

Olivier Blanchard (PIIE) and Dani Rodrik (Harvard University)
November 20, 2019
US government is worst at reducing inequality of all high-income OECD countries
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US Government Is Worst at Reducing Inequality of All High-Income OECD Countries

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard (PIIE)
October 27, 2017
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Has Global Trade Fueled US Wage Inequality? A Survey of Experts

Zhiyao (Lucy) Lu (PIIE) and Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE)
August 30, 2017
Figure 1 The elephant graph
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Deconstructing Branko Milanovic's “Elephant Chart”: Does It Show What Everyone Thinks?

Caroline Freund (PIIE)
November 30, 2016

Recent Content

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The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations

Philippe Aghion (Collège de France; London School of Economics and Political Science)

April 20, 2021
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Economic policy for a pandemic age: Inequality, technology, and lessons from East Asia

Monica de Bolle (PIIE), Martin Chorzempa (PIIE), Mary E. Lovely (PIIE), David Wilcox (PIIE) and Maurice Obstfeld (PIIE)

April 8, 2021
PIIE Briefing

Economic Policy for a Pandemic Age: How the World Must Prepare

Monica de Bolle (PIIE), Maurice Obstfeld (PIIE) and Adam S. Posen (PIIE), editors

April 2021
Working Paper

Do gendered laws matter for women’s economic empowerment?

Marie Hyland (World Bank), Simeon Djankov (PIIE) and Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg (PIIE)

March 2021
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Racial inequities made worse by COVID-19 demand strong policy countermeasures

David Wilcox (PIIE)

March 2, 2021
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

The pandemic is not under control anywhere unless it is controlled everywhere

Chad P. Bown (PIIE), Monica de Bolle (PIIE) and Maurice Obstfeld (PIIE)

February 2, 2021
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

PIIE's most read content in 2020

Anjali Bhatt (PIIE)

December 23, 2020
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

COVID-19 widens gender gap in labor force participation in some but not other advanced economies

Simeon Djankov (PIIE) and Eva (Yiwen) Zhang (PIIE)

December 15, 2020
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Monetary Policy and Inequality: COVID-19 and Beyond

D. Filiz Unsal (International Monetary Fund), Olivier Blanchard (PIIE), Markus K. Brunnermeier (PIIE), Adam S. Posen (PIIE) and Tharman Shanmugaratnam (Monetary Authority of Singapore)

December 14, 2020
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Financial Market Infrastructure and Inequality: COVID-19 and Beyond

Maria Soledad Martinez Peria (International Monetary Fund), Camille Busette (Brookings Institution), Leora Klapper (World Bank), Luiz Awazu Pereira Da Silva (Bank for International Settlements) and Robert Townsend (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

December 11, 2020