Vamsi Vakulabharanam addressed the annual conference of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) in Paris on April 9th in the opening session on “Economic Growth and Inequality Across Time and Space.”

Sharing the podium were inequality scholar Branko Milanovic, former lead economist at the World Bank, and panel chair Anatole Kaletsky, a member of the governing council of the Royal Economic Society. Professor Vakulabharanam spoke on historical trends in income inequality in major Asian economies, and their divergent responses to profitability crises and effective demand crises. The conference, which took place at the headquarters of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, was attended by several hundred leading economists from around the world.