Paul Segal

I am Reader in Economics of Development at the Department of International Development, King's College London, and a Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE's International Inequalities Institute. My research covers inequalities both globally and within countries, poverty, the economics of natural resources, and economic history and development. I have a strong interest in interdisciplinary approaches, combining economic sociology and political economy with the economics of inequality. I also teach macroeconomics and development economics and write occasional policy articles for FT.com and the Guardian.

I am a co-author of the CORE Economics project, where I contributed on macroeconomics, inequality, and the economics of developing countries.

My most recent research develops new interdisciplinary approaches to social and economic inequalities. This includes both theoretical work combining normative concerns and measurement issues, and empirical fieldwork in Mexico City on multidimensional inequalities, in collaboration with Oxfam Mexico. I am currently working on the relationship between social reproduction and inequality in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Some recent work

On the Character and Causes of Inequality in Latin America, Development and Change

Inequality as entitlements over labour, Socio-Economic Review

Inequality, Living Standards and Growth: Two Centuries of Economic Development in Mexico (with Ingrid Bleynat and Amilcar Challú), Economic History Review (blog post here).

Blog Post at INET: Inequality Represents a Wasted Opportunity for Poverty Reduction. 

No somos iguales: Special issue and website of Chilango magazine on our project (with Ingrid Bleynat) on multidimensional inequalities in Mexico City.