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Professor Paul Segal

Professor Paul Segal

Visiting Senior Fellow

International Inequalities Institute

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Paul.Segal@kcl.ac.uk
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Languages
English
Key Expertise
Economics, Global Inequality, Poverty

About me

Paul Segal is Professor of Economics at the IAE Business School, Universidad Austral, Argentina. His research covers inequalities both globally and within countries, poverty, the economics of natural resources, and economic history and development, with a focus on emerging economies. He pioneered the use of the new top incomes data in the study of global inequality, producing the first estimates of the global distribution of income that combined surveys and administrative tax data. He has a strong interest in interdisciplinary approaches, combining economic sociology and political economy with the economics of inequality.

Paul is a co-author of CORE: The Economy, an open-access online economics textbook that is used in over 500 universities across more than 70 countries, where he contributed on macroeconomics, inequality, and the economics of developing countries. He is currently writing a new unit on high inflation and hyperinflation.

Paul has previously held research positions at Harvard University and Oxford University, and was a Lecturer at the University of Sussex and Reader (Associate Professor) at King´s College London. Prior to his doctoral studies he worked for the United Nations Development Programme as part of the core team writing the Human Development Report 2002.

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Expertise Details

Economics; Global Inequality; Poverty

Publications

Publications with the LSE III

Segal P (2020) Inequality as entitlements over labour. Working Paper (43). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Segal P and Savage M (2019) Inequality interactions. Working Paper (27). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Segal P and Anand S (2017) Who are the global top 1%? Working Paper (8). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Selected publications

Segal P, Bleynat I and Challú A (Forthcoming) Inequality, Living Standards and Growth: Two Centuries of Economic Development in Mexico, Economic History Review.

Segal P and Bleynat I (2019) Las caras de la desigualdad: Apuntes preliminares sobre un abordaje multidimensional y multimedial de la desigualdad social, Lavboratorio, Revista de Estudios sobre Cambio Estructural y Desigualdad Social, No 29, Buenos Aires: Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, pp. 198 – 209.

Segal P and Anand S (2017) Who are the Global Top 1%? World Development, Vol. 95, pp.111-126.

Segal P and Anand S (2015) The Global Distribution of Income, in Anthony B. Atkinson and François Bourguignon (eds.), Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume II, North-Holland, 2015.

Segal P and Debowicz D (2014) Structural Change in Argentina, 1935-1960: The Role of Import Substitution and Factor Endowments, Journal of Economic History, Vol. 74 Iss. 01, pp 230-258.

Segal P (2012) How to Spend It: Resource Wealth and the Distribution of Resource Rents, Energy Policy, Vol. 51, pp. 340-348.

Segal P (2011) Resource Rents, Redistribution, and Halving Global Poverty: The Resource Dividend, World Development, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 475-489.

Segal P, El-Katiri L and Fattouh B (2011) Anatomy of an Oil-Based Welfare State: Rent Distribution in Kuwait, in David Held and Kristian Ulrichsen (eds.), The Transformation of the Gulf States: Politics, Economics and the Global Order, Routledge, pp. 165-187.

Segal P, Anand S, and Stiglitz J (2010) Debates on the Measurement of Global Poverty, Oxford University Press.

Segal P and Anand S (2008) What Do We Know about Global Income Inequality? Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 57-94.

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