John Sender News Today

Dec. 30, 1932 — May 23, 2023

When I was in high school, my economics class read The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs. The book is a passionate appeal to help those living in the worst poverty in the world. Sachs writes that we should not worry too much about the people in second-to-last place, such as the poorly paid workers in labor-intensive industries who were then the focus of considerable debate and activism on U.S. college campuses. Sweatshop workers, Sachs conceded, were on the bottom rung of the ladder. But subsist...

7Qs for Academics: Rosimina Ali 11 December 2020 - SCIS Today we speak to Rosimina Ali, a Researcher in Economics at the Institute for Social and Economic Studies, (IESE) This is an ongoing series where we introduce some key researchers and academics getting to understand their work, their developing research interests as well as what keeps them engaged. Explain the nature of your work and/or how it relates to inequality. My research focuses on the political economy of labour markets, social re...