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In this video, Paul Krugman, Janet Gornick, Achim Steiner, and other experts discuss the challenges of addressing global inequality.

The Human Development Report Office, LIS, the Stone Center, UNU-WIDER and the World Inequality Lab will host a symposium on March 28-29.

In this IIPP video, Branko Milanovic discusses the current evolution in global income inequality.

This dataset, constructed by Stone Center Senior Scholar Branko Milanovic, represents a compilation and adaptation of income or consumption Gini coefficients (calculated across households or household per capita; on gross or net basis) retrieved from nine sources. B. Milanovic. 2019.

B. Milanovic. The Economic History Review. vol. 71, no. 4. pp. 1029-1047. 2018.

The Stone Center has established a new postdoctoral program that will support two scholars beginning in the 2019–2020 academic year and two beginning in the 2020–2021 year.

The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation awarded a gift of $1.2 million to the Stone Center to launch a new postdoctoral scholars program.

The Stone Center served as host of the Seventh Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ). Watch the featured keynote lectures.

J. Hasell, S. Morelli, and M. Roser. In Reducing Social Inequalities in Cancer: Evidence and Priorities for Research. S. Vaccarella, J. Lortet-Tieulent, R. Saracci, D. Conway, K. Straif, and C. Wild (eds). pp. 205-227. Lyon: IARC Scientific Publication No. 168. 2018.

Watch the inaugural Stone Wealth Inequality Lecture by Gabriel Zucman, in which he talks about tax evasion and inequality.