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SUMMARY:Inequality and slow economic growth in the West: what does sex hav
 e to do with it? - Victoria Bateman
DTSTART:20160119T210000Z
DTEND:20160119T213000Z
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CONTACT:Paulina Rowicka
DESCRIPTION:Here in the West\, economists are currently battling two serio
 us problems\, slow economic growth and rising inequality. In this talk we 
 will draw on economic history to identify a cause which has so far been la
 rgely neglected: a global sex problem. Since the onset of globalisation\, 
 the lack of female empowerment outside of the West has created population 
 growth rates which have undermined the position of the poor\, reduced the 
 bargaining power of Western workers\, and lowered incentives for businesse
 s to invest\, harming economic growth. In other words\, the current proble
 ms in the West cannot and should not be seen as independent of the plight 
 of women overseas. Reducing inequality and raising growth rates in countri
 es such as Britain and the U.S. will require economists to think more care
 fully about the gender\ndimension.
LOCATION:Senior Parlour\, Gonville and Caius College
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