Calendrier du 27 mars 2019
Development Economics Seminar
Du 27/03/2019 de 16:30 à 18:00
Salle R2.01 Campus Jourdan, 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
RAVALLION Martin (Georgetown University)
Ethnic Inequality and Poverty in Malaysia Since 1969
Ethnic riots broke out in Malaysia in 1969, prompting a national effort at affirmative action
favoring the poorer (majority) of “Bumiputera” (mainly Malays). Since then, Malaysia’s official
poverty measures indicate one of the fastest long-term rates of poverty reduction in the world,
due to both economic growth and falling inequality. Did ethnic inequality fall since 1969 and was
that a key factor in the country’s success in reducing poverty and in managing inequality? New
measures in this paper indicate a substantial decline in relative ethnic inequality. This brought
down national relative inequality, though not enough to prevent rising absolute inequality, given
the initial disparities. A new analytic decomposition of the rate of poverty reduction reveals that
ethnic redistribution helped reduce poverty, although it was not as important as the overall rate of
growth in household incomes. Despite past progress in reducing ethnic inequality, the
responsiveness of the national poverty rate to ethnic redistribution remains high even today.
Economic History Seminar
Du 27/03/2019 de 12:30 à 14:00
Salle R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
CERRETANO Valerio (University of Glasgow) *TBA;
La séance est annulée