The importance of spatial inequality in sub-Saharan Africa is often overlooked. In this new open-access paper in the #JournalofAfricanEconomie, I show that it explains most of the consumption inequality trend in Mozambique in recent years
@unu-wider.bsky.social EQUALproject
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A very insightful lecture by Prof. @josephestiglitz.bsky.social during his Honorary Doctorate from UIMP yesterday on the true meaning of economic freedom and its misconceptions, the concerning threats to academic freedom, and much more.

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This coming Sunday at noon, I'll have the great honor of introducing @josephestiglitz.bsky.social during his investiture ceremony as an honorary doctorate by the #UIMP at the beautiful Palacio de la Magdalena in Santander (Spain).
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(introduction in Spanish)

The concentration of income at the bottom and top, rather than overall #inequality, is negatively associated with #humandevelopment. My #EQUAL #UNUWIDER paper with Vicente Royuela and David Castells is now on OEP #econsky
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In my new UNU-WIDER-EQUAL WP, I show how spatial inequalities drive Mozambique's overall consumption inequality trend. Check it out --> bit.ly/SpatialIneq.
#Inequality, #EconSky,

This is my first post here! In a new ECINEQ WP, Gabriela Zapata-Román and I study #inequality of opportunity (IO) in Chile and provide our take on how best to measure its importance using various inequality measures: bit.ly/ChileIO.