Lecture with the economist Oriana Bandiera on persistent poverty

Oriana Bandiera.
Oriana Bandiera.
Academic
(21/02/2018)

On Thursday February 22 in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Economics and Business at 12 noon, the professor and economist from the London School of Economics, Oriana Bandiera, will offer a lecture on how to better understand poverty to apply efficient policies. Bandiera, who is taking part in a lecture for the first time in Spain, is considered to be one of the best experts on development economics worldwide and on the fight against poverty. The lecture is included in the conference series Kapuscinski Development Lectures, organized by the European Union and the United Nations Program for Development, which will be held for the first time in Barcelona.

Oriana Bandiera.
Oriana Bandiera.
Academic
21/02/2018

On Thursday February 22 in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Economics and Business at 12 noon, the professor and economist from the London School of Economics, Oriana Bandiera, will offer a lecture on how to better understand poverty to apply efficient policies. Bandiera, who is taking part in a lecture for the first time in Spain, is considered to be one of the best experts on development economics worldwide and on the fight against poverty. The lecture is included in the conference series Kapuscinski Development Lectures, organized by the European Union and the United Nations Program for Development, which will be held for the first time in Barcelona.

The aim of this lecture is to understand poverty better. There are two big views on poverty among economists. For some, the world has equal opportunities and poverty is a starting low economic and educational level for some people, which will eventually disappear. However, others see this starting level as having less opportunities, and in the long run, poverty cannot disappear if the States do not get involved, applying efficient anti-poverty policies.

The conference aims to show, using information on rural population from one of the poorest areas of the world (Banngladesh), that the second view is the one offering a precise view of reality, and it will not stop unless there is a massive investment on anti-poverty policies.

Last, this lecture will also put emphasis on the idea that anti-poverty policies have positive effects on equity (distributing resources from the rich to the poor) as well as on efficiency (improving economy growth perspectives as a whole).

To attend the lecture, register  here.