Global Challenge of Economic Inequality: The Road Ahead

40 min

31.05.2024

Featuring

Shekhar Aiyar

Visiting Professor
at NCAER

Udaibir Das

Visiting Professor
at NCAER

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Amid concerns over increasing economic inequalities across the world, Visiting Professor at NCAER Shekhar Aiyar cautions against protectionism and turning away from the liberal economic order. Instead, he calls for a focus on measures like universal basic income, wage insurance, unemployment assistance and high-quality schooling and health care.

Guest: Prof Shekhar Aiyar, Visiting Professor at NCAER, Non-Resident Fellow at Bruegel and Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University.
Host: Prof Udaibir Das, Visiting Professor, NCAER.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in the podcast are those of the guest and do not represent the views and thoughts of the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) or its Board.

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