Launch of Special Issue of the ‘Journal of Income Distribution’

Professors Hamouda and Price of the Glendon Campus, are hosting a virtual event on income distribution on Wednesday, September 28, 2022. The event is the launch of the next Special Issue of the Journal of Income Distribution, whose Editorial Office is housed at Glendon College.  The event is via Zoom gathering at on September 28, 7am.  It  introduces the next issue of the Journal, guested edited by Jacques Silber and Hyun Son, on ‘Nanak Kakwani’s Legacy on the Study of Income Inequality, Poverty, and Tax Progressivity’. On this occasion, an impressive number of international specialists will pay tribute to a remarkable scholar in his virtual presence.   

WELCOME
Betsey Price Journal Manager, Journal of Income Distribution
Omar F. Hamouda Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Income Distribution
INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE
Jacques Silber
Hyun Son                 Guest Editors of the Special Issue
INVITED TALKS
Stephen Jenkins Professor of Economic and Social Policy, London School of Economics
Nora Lustig Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics and the Director of the CEQ Institute, Tulane University
Gary Fields John P. Windmuller Professor of International and
Comparative Labor and Professor of Economics, Cornell University
Kunal Sen Director of the United Nation University – World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and Professor of Development Economics, University of Manchester
COMMENTARY
Francisco Ferreira Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies and Director of the International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics
CLOSING REMARKS
Nanak Kakwani