Inequality, once a side topic in a standard economic course, is increasingly an issue at the core of the subject. The module Inequality of the Course Development economics is meant to look at the complex links connecting inequality to growth and development and possibly to understand them.

Programma del corso

The assessment of income inequality: methods and results. Why the Human Development Index has been devised and what is the insight it offers. Tackling issues about health and education inequality. Does gender make a difference? The complex link between growth and inequality.

. Country data supplied by Eurostat on October 25th were downloaded from http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&plugin=1&language=en&pcode=tec00001
the exctracted Table is in file GDPpc 1