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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Societal 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…
Measures of well-being
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Learn 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…
Policing, racism, and colorism in America and…
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Globally, concerns about rising and common wealth and equality have intensified in recent years. This discourse has sort of transcended academic and political circles…
Inequality, poverty, and social identity
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From 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…
Introducing well-being
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Progress 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…
Poverty reduction in East Asia
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South 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…
Exclusion and inequality in South Africa
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In 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…
The devaluation of assets in Black American…
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In 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…
Multidimensional poverty vs. income poverty
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This 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…
Understanding Poverty and Inequality - Trailer
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This module explores the various definitions and measures of inequality. We're going to look at some of the trends in inequality, largely the income inequality…
Defining inequality
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What 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…
Measuring multidimensional poverty
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Today 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…
Poverty, inequality, and the COVID-19 pandemic
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Why 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…
Why climate matters for poverty and inequality
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This 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…
Inequality and indigenous experience
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Why 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…
Mobility, migration, and opportunity
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Systemic racism has contributed to the persistence of race-based gaps that manifest in many different economic indicators. The starkest divides are in measures of…
Race and financial inequality
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