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In this video, Angus Deaton traces the dramatic increase in human prosperity over the past 250 years as well as the widening gap between the poor and sick, and the rich and well.

C. Lackner and B. Milanovic. The World Bank Economic Review. vol. 30, no. 2. pp. 203-232. 2015.

Watch two of the world’s leading experts on economics and the environment discuss the intersection of climate change and inequality.

Watch Jeff Madrick discuss themes in his recent book with Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.

B. Milanovic and N. Sambanis. Comparative Political Studies. vol. 47, no. 13. pp. 1830-1855. 2014.

Janet Gornick's keynote address at the UN Second Committee General Debate.

Watch French economist Thomas Piketty participate in a panel discussing his new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century at the Graduate Center.

In an interview with CUNY’s Folio, Janet Gornick discusses elements of her 2012 commencement speech and why poverty and inequality are growing more important to the current debate.

This database contains a panel of country-deciles covering the twenty year period 1988-2008, expressed in common currency and prices (2005 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) dollars derived from the 2005 International Comparison Project). B. Milanovic and C. Lakner. 2013.

In this video, panelists and editors discuss "Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries" at its launch.