Abstract

Professor Angus Deaton will present the third of the CReMic Sir Richard Stone Annual Lectures. The title is “The Shape of the World: Measuring Global Development”.

The Lecture will take place in the Bateman Auditorium Gonville and Caius College Thursday 11 November 2010 from 17.00-18.30. All are welcome.

Angus is Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University. His main current research areas are in health, in economic development, and in the analysis of household behaviour, especially at the microeconomic level, focussing currently on the determinants of health in rich and poor countries, as well as on the measurement of poverty in India and around the world.