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Occasional Speaker Series on Research Topics in Sustainable Development

"Inequality and Human Development in Mexico"

Speaker: Dr. Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva, Professor, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

Discussant: Sakiko Fuduka-Parr, Research Fellow in the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project at KSG

Co-sponsored by the Center for International Development and The KSG Mexico Program

Hosted by Prof. William Clark, Science, Environment and Development Group

Wednesday, 6 April 2005
4:00 - 5:30 pm
Refreshments will be served
Location: Perkins Room, 4th Floor Rubenstein Building (formerly One Eliot Building), Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Biography:

Luis F. Lopez-Calva is Professor and Director of the Master’s Degree in Economics and Public Policy at the Tec de Monterrey (ITESM) in Mexico City. He is also the director of the National Human Development Report, UNDP-Mexico. He has been Professor of Economics at the Universidad de las Américas (UDLA) in Puebla, and El Colegio de México. He is a member of the Mexican Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, the Official Committee for Poverty Measurement and the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Ministry of Social Development in Mexico. Professor Lopez-Calva holds a MA in Economics from Boston University and a Master´s and Ph. D. in Economics from Cornell University. His research interests include child labor, poverty and inequality, institutional economics and development.

Background Document:

Foster, James E., Luis F. López-Calva, and Miguel Székely. 2005. "Measuring the Distribution of Human Development: Methodology and an Application to Mexico." Journal of Human Development 6(1): 5-29.

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