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SUMMARY:PEM Seminar Series - Prof Alasdair Rae\, University of Sheffield-
 -'An English Atlas of Inequality'
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DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nInequality has long been recognised as a social pr
 oblem worth talking about. For example\, in Plato’s Republic from 380BC 
 he observes that “any city\, however small\, is in fact divided into two
 \, one the city of the poor\, the other of the rich”. Likewise\, in Benj
 amin Disraeli’s novel ‘Sybil\, or The Two Nations’ he refers to the rich
  and the poor as ‘dwellers in different zones’. Today\, organisations at
  the global and national scale have begun to take inequality seriously.\
 n\nYet despite ongoing technical arguments over methodology and data\, w
 e don’t currently have a very good understanding of inequality at the lo
 cal level in England. Figures like the Gini coefficient tell us that the
  nation is one of the most unequal amongst OECD countries\, but it’s muc
 h less clear how unequal local economies are. Therefore our ‘Atlas of In
 equality’ seeks to provide up to date evidence on the extent of income i
 nequality in England today\, in relation to distribution\, polarisation 
 and geography. The measures we develop in the Atlas are then used to arr
 ive at a better understanding of whether more unequal areas have better 
 outcomes\, in relation to things like education\, poverty or health. Our
  hope is that this can then feed into new ways of thinking about inequal
 ity and\, crucially\, what to do about it.\n\nOur Atlas is full of maps\
 , charts and data and uses a combination of new and existing indicators 
 to shed light on the extent of income inequality in England today.\n\nTh
 e research was conducted by Elvis Nyanzu and Alasdair Rae at the Univers
 ity of Sheffield and funded by the Nuffield Foundation.\n\n
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LOCATION:G.030/31\, Arthur Lewis Building\, Architecture and Planning\, M
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