Ravi Kanbur's guest appearances

Ravi Kanbur

IMF Podcasts

WESPOD: Challenging Perspectives

Alex Segura

Ray Kurzweil

Michael Lewis

Thomas Friedman

Binyamin Appelbaum

Angus Deaton

Shoshana Zuboff

Eric Hanushek

John Evans

Paul Krugman

Joseph Stiglitz

Peter Smith

Nicholas Stern

Christine Lagarde

David Miliband

OwlTail

Jeffrey Sachs

“The online world, our world, was able to continue and in some way even to benefit hugely from this pandemic, as everybody has come to understand the richest people in the world got vastly richer in the past 12 months”  This episode of WESPOD features a distinguished panel of speakers on the topic of Global Inequalities. The panel includes: Joseph Stiglitz, who is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Ravi Kanbur is the Co-Chair of the Food Economics Commission Mthuli Ncube is the Finance Minister of Zimbabwe Past Chief Economist and Vice-President of the African Development Bank Petya Koeva-Brooks is the Deputy Director in the IMF’s Strategy, Policy, and Review Department Jeffrey Sachs, President of UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Tune in for a fascinating discussion of sustainable development, the impact of Covid-19 on global sustainability goals, and the consequences of the pandemic on global inequality.  Don't forget to follow us for more challenging perspectives! Instagram: @warwickeconsummit / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WarwickEconomicsSummit More on our linktree: https://linktr.ee/WES_Socials   ---   Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wespod/message

“The online world, our world, was able to continue and in some way even to benefit hugely from this pandemic, as everybody has come to understand the richest people in the world got vastly richer in the past 12 months” This episode of WESPOD features a distinguished panel of speakers on the topic of Global Inequalities. The panel includes: Joseph Stiglitz, who is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Ravi Kanbur is the Co-Chair of the Food Economics Commission Mthuli Ncube is the Finance Minister of Zimbabwe Past Chief Economist and Vice-President of the African Development Bank Petya Koeva-Brooks is the Deputy Director in the IMF’s Strategy, Policy, and Review Department Jeffrey Sachs, President of UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Tune in for a fascinating discussion of sustainable development, the impact of Covid-19 on global sustainability goals, and the consequences of the pandemic on global inequality. Don't forget to follow us for more challenging perspectives! Instagram: @warwickeconsummit / Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WarwickEconomicsSummit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/WarwickEconomicsSummit</a> More on our linktree: <a href="https://linktr.ee/WES_Socials" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/WES_Socials</a> --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wespod/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wespod/message</a>

On Global Inequality | Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs, Ravi Kanbur, Mthuli Ncube and Petya Koeva-Brooks

Ravi Kanbur says statistics are fundamentally political in nature and in import. Kanbur is Professor of Economics at Cornell University and gave the keynote speech at the  Fourth IMF Statistical forum on Statistics for Inclusive Growth, held in November 2016. In this podcast, Kanbur says data doesn’t always reflect reality when it comes to poverty and inequality. Contributors: Ravi Kanbur: T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs and Professor of Economics at Cornell University.

Ravi Kanbur says statistics are fundamentally political in nature and in import. Kanbur is Professor of Economics at Cornell University and gave the keynote speech at the <a href="http://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2016/statsforum/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Fourth IMF Statistical forum</a> on Statistics for Inclusive Growth, held in November 2016. In this podcast, Kanbur says data doesn’t always reflect reality when it comes to poverty and inequality. Contributors: Ravi Kanbur: T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs and Professor of Economics at Cornell University.

Ravi Kanbur: Political Dimensions of Data and Statistics