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Reconciling Rights, Growth and Inequality

25 January 2005 13:00-14:15 (GMT+00) - Public event, London

Favela Rocinha houses (Source: Julio Aguiar, Flickr - http://flickr.com/photos/julioaguiar/)
  • Many economists continue to be sceptical about the utility and affordability of economic and social rights as guides to resource allocation and policy-making. This session focused on the impact on growth of meeting rights claims, including through redistribution, examining the relationship between growth, poverty reduction and tackling inequality.

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    Speakers:
    Lord Brett, Director - ILO London
    Andy McKay, Research Fellow - ODI and Professor of Economics and International Development - University of Bath
    Chair:
    Adrian Wood, Chief Economist - DFID

     

  • An ODI public event in the Human Rights and Poverty Reduction - Realities, Controversies and Strategies series.

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