Wealth Inequality Initiative Podcast, By Julius Baer Foundation
8 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago -Designed by the Julius Baer Foundation, the Wealth Inequality Initiative aims to shed light on the global challenge of wealth disparities. It connects worldwide key players and experts to awaken interest, circulate knowledge, mobilise stakeholders and drive action against wealth inequality. The Wealth Inequality Initiative Podcast Series features inspirational and influential personalities, including experts of wealth inequality. The guests’ voices and experiences turn the wealth inequality topic into tangible evidence. Their stories and best practices offer examples of possible solutions while instilling a sense of urgency and a need for action.
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Episodes
Ariane De Lannoy – Facing the Risks of Wealth Inequality
April 30, 2024 14:00 - 32 minutes - 59.2 MBAriane De Lannoy is a professor and chief researcher in the Labour and Development Research Unit of the University of Cape Town. Her work focusses on youth and youth development in the complex post-apartheid context of South Africa, where stark socio-economic divisions persist to this day. In this Wealth inequality initiative podcast, Julius Baer Foundation CEO Laura Hemrika converses with Ariane about inequality’s risks and possibilities for change. Find out more on www.wealth-ineq...
Dhir Jhingran – Why We Must Rebalance the Scales of Education
April 26, 2024 09:44 - 24 minutes - 45.1 MBWhy must we rebalance the scales of education? Engaged in India’s education sector for over 30 years, Dhir Jhingran established the Language and Learning Foundation in 2015 as a way to improve support for primary school-aged children from marginalised backgrounds. In this Wealth inequality initiative podcast, CEO of the Julius Baer Foundation, Laura Hemrika, discusses the role of education inequality with Dhir and asks how to address education inequality. Find out more on www.wealth...
Kate Pickett - Greater Equality Improves Everyone’s Health
April 07, 2022 15:00 - 27 minutes - 63.5 MBAs an epidemiologist and a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health, Kate Pickett’s work focuses on the social determinants of health. Throughout her career, Kate has been studying the impact of variables such as inequality, social class and neighbourhood contexts on people’s health and development. Her findings led her to become an activist for equality and co-founder of the Equality Trust. In this podcast talk with Nathalie Jean-Baptiste, Kate unveils the deep connection between i...
Danny Sriskandarajah: Your Liberation is Bound Up with my Liberation
February 24, 2022 16:00 - 25 minutes - 57.8 MBDanny Sriskandarajah is the CEO of Oxfam GB, one of the 21 affiliates to the non-governmental organisation Oxfam International, which works in 90 countries around the world. Oxfam consistently focuses on fighting injustice and ending poverty. In its approach, Oxfam has historically highlighted systemic inequalities and the shortfalls of the current economic system, pointing the finger at policy choices that benefit the richest and most powerful people but fail to improve the lives of...
Denis Mizne: High Quality Education for All
December 08, 2021 14:47 - 27 minutes - 63.3 MBQuality education is essential for every community to flourish. In too many countries, however, access to this crucial asset is still unequal among the different groups located across the wealth spectrum. As a result, countries are failing to develop and leverage their full talent potential, and preclude their citizens from thriving in the society through social mobility. This was the case of Brazil, until a coalition mobilised by the Fundação Lemann managed to drive a structural #ch...
Professor Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser - Perceptions of Wealth Inequality
October 29, 2021 07:53 - 28 minutes - 51.8 MBPerceptions of wealth inequality can differ widely, depending upon one’s place on the wealth spectrum. Such disconnect puts us at risk of further social disunion. In this third Wealth Inequality Initiative podcast, Professor Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser shares the results of his latest research on Chilean elites’ perceptions of inequality. Cristóbal calls for an open dialogue across the wealth spectrum that brings diverse groups together to drive the country's economic development an...
Lesley Lokko - Can architecture tackle Wealth Inequality?
August 25, 2021 15:00 - 21 minutes - 49.6 MBCan architecture tackle Wealth Inequality? The academic in architecture and best-selling novelist Lesley Lokko thinks so. In this Wealth inequality Initiative podcast, she shares her experience and her new aspirations with the African Futures Institute (AFI) in Accra, Ghana. Find out more on www.wealth-inequality.net
Thuli Madonsela - A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice
July 18, 2021 08:00 - 25 minutes - 58.1 MBThuli Madonsela has been dedicating her life to advance social justice in South Africa, the country ranking 1st for inequality worldwide. In the 1st Wealth Inequality Initiative podcast, Thuli Madonsela comments on the situation of wealth inequality in South Africa, her recommendations to her students for effective change and the most urgent issues in tackling the wealth disparities. She cautions: “poverty operates like an epidemic”.