PROGRAM
June 30th , 2025
9:30 Registration
Chair: Francesco Giunta
Welcome addresses
10:30 Prof. Alessandra Petrucci, Rector Magnificus of the University of Florence
10:35: Prof. Maria Elvira Mancino, Head of the Department of Economics and Management, University of Florence
10:40 Jeannie and Marco Cornia
Introduction
10:45 G. Andrea Cornia: An economist “with a human face”
Bruno Martorano, UNU-MERIT Maastricht University
Donato Romano, University of Florence
Luca Tiberti, University of Florence
Elisa Ticci, University of Siena
Chair: Mario Biggeri
Facing inequality in a challenging era
11:00 Globalization, inequality, and development: A historical perspective
Deepak Nayyar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
11:30 Inequality: concepts and strategies
Frances Stewart, Oxford University
12:00 Economic reform, poverty, and inequality
Anthony Addison, University of Copenhagen
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
Chair: Giorgia Giovannetti
14:00 Inequality and institutional quality: The case of Latin America
Jose Antonio Alonso, Complutense University, Madrid
14:30 Income inequality, structural and technological change, and Intellectual Property Rights
Rolph van der Hoeven & Zemem Shigute, International Institute of Social Studies, Den Hague
15:00 Poverty, inequality, and agrifood system transformation
Rob Vos, IFPRI, Washington DC
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
Chair: Renato Paniccià
Inequality and inequalities
16:00 Inequality data and metrics
Paolo Verme, University of Bologna
16:30 Inequality, capabilities and entitlements in a world perspective: The human-centred economics of Giovanni Andrea Cornia
Sanjay Reddy, The New School for Social Research, New York
17:00 Why the rich and the poor value freedom and inequality differently
Vladimir Popov, Carleton University, Ottawa
July 1 st , 2025
Chair: Vasco Molini
9:00 Redistributive preferences and perceptions of horizontal inequality: Insights from Kenya
Arnim Langer, KUL, Leuven
9:30 Nations, zones and inequalities
Jayati Ghosh, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
10:00 Mind the gap revisited: Trends in child wellbeing and disparities from 1960 to 2025
Alberto Minuchin, Enrique Delamonica & Leonardo Menchini, UNICEF, New York & Amman
10:30 Socio-economic inequality in child health and nutrition in the global south
Sebastian Vollmer, Göttingen University
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
Chair: Gianna Giannelli
Inequality across the world
11:30 The social consequences of transition in Eastern Europe
Milica Uvalic, European University Institute, Fiesole
12:00 Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Augustin K. Fosu, ISSER University of Ghana, Accra
12:30 The shifting landscape of income inequality in Latin America
Guillermo Cruces and Leonardo Gasparini, CEDLAS University of La Plata
Concluding remarks
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