Growth, Poverty & Inequality
Will poverty survive the age of big data?
Dr Simon Angus recently explored big data’s potential to end the knowledge scarcity that poverty thrives on in a TED-style talk for the Monash Studio Series.
Testing Piketty's Third Law
Professor Jakob Madsen analyses Piketty's argument that rising income inequality amid western economies will continue throughout the 21st Century.
Poverty and growth in India
Associate Professor Gaurav Datt explores how India's striking transformation from rural to urban economy has redefined the relationship between economic growth and poverty.
The Kuznets Curve
Professor Sisira Jayasuriya discusses Piketty's assertion that the Kuznets Curve, which charts the rise and fall of inequality as an economy grows, is "dead".
New insight into Indigenous child disadvantage
Professor Ranjan Ray employs a novel, multidimensional approach to provide new insight into Indigenous child disadvantage in Australia.
Too hot to work? Or too sick to grow?
Professor Jakob Madsen's research into the cognitive development of children provides new insight into why tropical countries tend to have lower average IQs and economic growth rates.
Prices, spatial prices and their implications for welfare comparisons
The tale of the two Italies: everyone knows it, nobody wants to hear it.
Has the World Bank got a problem with its poverty figures?
Professor Ranjan Ray and co-researchers suggests the World Bank's poverty calculations lack transparency, replicability and robustness.
How do we best measure poverty?
Associate Professor Gaurav Datt is leading a World Bank team working with the statistical authorities in Myanmar and the Philippines to develop broader measures of poverty for those nations.
New measures for global poverty
Professor Ranjan Ray takes a look at recent developments in the analysis of household behaviour on prices and how we measure poverty, taking a fresh look at an age-old problem.
Challenges and opportunites of Sri Lanka's post-conflict economic development
Lessons of a struggle for socio-political reconciliation, a turbulent world economy, and difficult internal and external political challenges.