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DESCRIPTION:2026 SCIS Annual Inequality LectureThe Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) warmly invites you to its Annual Inequality Lecture on 28 July 2026, 16:00 - 18:00 (SAST). Professor Jayati Ghosh will deliver the keynote address titled Can developing countries reduce inequality in today’s world economy?
The global economic architecture is associated with many inequalities. These exist between countries, because of currency hierarchies and integration into international financial markets on unequal terms; unequal power in the international financial institutions controlled by a few advanced economies that display double standards for richer and poorer countries; restrictive “trade” rules that reduce policy space in lower income countries and do not allow them to use the same economic strategies that richer countries used in the course of their development. These processes, along with the legacy of colonial history, add to inequalities within countries as well. This is why it is often argued that increased inequality is a necessary by-product of the imperatives of economic development. I argue that this is not true, and that even within a restrictive global order, lower income countries can reduce inequality within their own countries.
Jayati Ghosh has taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, for 35 years, and is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. She is a member of the Extraordinary Committee of Experts on Inequality constituted by President Cyril Ramaphosa for the South African G20 Presidency in 2025. She is Co-Chair (with Joseph E. Stiglitz) of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Capital Taxation and Vice-Chair of the Founding Committee of the International Panel on Inequality in 2026.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:2026 SCIS Annual Inequality LectureThe Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) warmly invites you to its Annual Inequality Lecture on 28 July 2026, 16:00 - 18:00 (SAST). Professor Jayati Ghosh will deliver the keynote address titled Can developing countries reduce inequality in today’s world economy?
The global economic architecture is associated with many inequalities. These exist between countries, because of currency hierarchies and integration into international financial markets on unequal terms; unequal power in the international financial institutions controlled by a few advanced economies that display double standards for richer and poorer countries; restrictive “trade” rules that reduce policy space in lower income countries and do not allow them to use the same economic strategies that richer countries used in the course of their development. These processes, along with the legacy of colonial history, add to inequalities within countries as well. This is why it is often argued that increased inequality is a necessary by-product of the imperatives of economic development. I argue that this is not true, and that even within a restrictive global order, lower income countries can reduce inequality within their own countries.
Jayati Ghosh has taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, for 35 years, and is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. She is a member of the Extraordinary Committee of Experts on Inequality constituted by President Cyril Ramaphosa for the South African G20 Presidency in 2025. She is Co-Chair (with Joseph E. Stiglitz) of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Capital Taxation and Vice-Chair of the Founding Committee of the International Panel on Inequality in 2026.
SUMMARY:2026 SCIS Annual Inequality Lecture
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