Inequaties, Social Exclusion and Public Policies (2 º Sem 2019/2020)

EPP (Economia e Políticas Públicas)

Program

General Learning Objective: By the end of the semester the student will be able to analyze inequality, its relation with social exclusion and evaluate the role of the distributive policies to mitigate inequality.

Specific Learning Objectives and outcomes: By the end of the semester, students will have accomplished the following:
- Learned the main concepts of inequality. Inequality and Equity;
- Learned the relation between Income Distribution and Economics Inequality;
- Learned the main issues about inequality measurement;
- Learned to identify the main determinants of inequality;
- Learned how to evaluate Public Policies to reduce inequality and to discuss its effectiveness and efficiency;
- Learned the basic principles of inequality dynamics;
- Learned to implement the concepts and the methods acquired in empirical applications.