The world’s oldest humanitarian organisation
Refugee relief is a crucial global development challenge and, unfortunately, it is very unlikely to disappear any time soon. At a conference organised by the EIB Institute, President of Malteser International Europe, Douglas Graf von Saurma-Jeltsch, presented the...
Health inequality and pain
Health inequalities, wherever and however they are measured, are generally large. But how can we bring together the generally non-quantitative analyses offered by moral philosophers as to when health inequalities are unjust with the empirical statistical analyses...
Inequality and bequests
Wealth disparities have been increasing over time in most countries. But what are the implications of bequests, especially for the inter-generational transmission of those disparities? asked Professor Charles Yuji Horioka of the Research Institute for Economics and...
Inequality and child development in deprived populations
Human Capital is key for escaping poverty and attaining higher standards of living, said Professor Costas Meghir from Yale University at an “Inequality and…?” lecture at the EIB in June, organised by the EIB Institute and the University of Luxembourg as part of the...
