A Menagerie of Lines: how to decide who is poor?

Speaker: Professor Angus Deaton Recorded on 9 December 2014 in Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House. In lectures across three consecutive evenings (9 December,10 December and 11 December) leading development economist Professor Deaton will discuss his work on health and poverty. Global poverty has been falling rapidly, even as income inequality has been inexorably rising in most of the world. Perhaps paradoxically, global income inequality has been falling. Or has it? Many claim not. Angus Deaton will discu