These videos are from the SDG Academy course Understanding Poverty and Inequality, first launched in 2021 and featuring experts in poverty, inequality, and sustainable development.
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867 playsLearn about the existing inequalities in America and you can reduce your own biases for a more equitable society. Learn about implicit bias and how to become a racial… -
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407 playsSocietal progress is about improvements in the well-being of people and households. Assessing such progress requires looking not only at the functioning of the economic… -
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428 playsFrom Carol Graham, one of the first economists to start thinking about happiness and wellbeing as part of science, learn about happiness and its complex connection to… -
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311 playsProgress in the fight against poverty has been made in the poorest large countries in Asia in the last 40 years and the pace of progress in eliminating poverty has been… -
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206 playsSouth Africa has generally experienced economic growth since its transition to democracy in 1994, but has not seen the type of attendant gains in welfare one might have… -
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197 playsIn this lecture, learn about cities and neighborhoods and examine how assets, housing, businesses, and other structures can build wealth or can be diminished by racist… -
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77 playsIn this video, we are going to be looking at how multidimensional poverty and income poverty are complementary measures that offer a more informed picture of poverty for… -
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73 playsThis course will present an overview of the definitions, scale, and scope of different forms of poverty and inequality across the world. It will examine links between… -
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48 playsGlobally, concerns about rising and common wealth and equality have intensified in recent years. This discourse has sort of transcended academic and political circles… -
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23 playsWhy are we so focused on climate now? First, the world is eating up very rapidly the carbon budget that we have in order to limit global warming to levels that we can… -
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30 playsWhat is The Multidimensional Poverty Measure? It is an index that captures the percentage of households in a country deprived along three dimensions of well-being… -
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25 playsThis lecture looks at the relationship between wealth, poverty, and inequality, by focusing on the experience of indigenous people. Two points are made. The first is… -
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14 playsToday we will discuss the effects of what economists call "exogenous shocks," or shocks external to our systems of economy and society on the lives of poor… -
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19 playsWhy are some countries rich and some countries poor?" "Why are some individuals or societies better off than others?" Keep in mind that perhaps the most… -
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16 playsSystemic racism has contributed to the persistence of race-based gaps that manifest in many different economic indicators. The starkest divides are in measures of… -
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7 playsOne of the key policy areas that people are debating now, especially in light of the pandemic, is whether it is a good idea to introduce universal basic incomes. In…