The Covid crisis has exacerbated inequalities between the very wealthy and the rest of the population, yet, in rich countries, government intervention prevented a massive rise in poverty, this was not the case in poor countries.

Lucas Chancel

Lucas Chancel (born in 1987 in Grenoble) is a French economist. He is Codirector and Senior economist at the World Inequality Lab of the Paris School of Economics and teaches at Sciences Po. He is also Codirector of the World Inequality Database and Research fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations. He works on global inequality, European political economy and Sustainable development. He authored and co-authored several books on these topics.

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