{"id":91417,"date":"2020-10-19T08:46:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T08:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flad.pt\/?p=91417"},"modified":"2020-11-02T10:15:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T10:15:15","slug":"susana-peralta-at-atlantic-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flad.pt\/en\/susana-peralta-at-atlantic-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Susana Peralta at Atlantic Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our guest this week is Susana Peralta, who has a PhD in Economics from the<\/strong> Universit\u00e9 Catholique de Louvain <\/a>in Belgium, an Associate Professor at NOVA SBE<\/a> and a columnist for the newspaper P\u00daBLICO,<\/a> in a conversation focused on the complex and vast theme of inequality, of which she has become one of the most recognized voices in Portugal.<\/h3>\n

It’s as important a topic as it is complex. This causes the voices with authority to talk about it, at least in Portugal, to be reduced as well. Susana Peralta is one of the most prominent economists in the Media in recent years, and her columns in the newspaper P\u00daBLICO<\/a> have become a mandatory reading.<\/p>\n

In this week’s edition of Atlantic Talks, the economist focuses the discussion on this same topic: inequalities.<\/strong> Susana Peralta points out that, according to several rankings, the United States is pointed out as one of the countries with the highest rates of inequality among the so-called developed countries. However, much of this is also due to a capacity for data collection and processing, which does not exist in European countries, such as Portugal.<\/p>\n

“I think we should take our hats off to the United States, it’s very important that we say this. It may even be the most unequal country, but the truth is that we also have a knowledge of inequality, even for example in the ethnic dimension, in the United States. In Portugal, we have no way of knowing the true extent of ethnic inequality because we are forbidden to ask a person’s ethnicity. This debate existed for the censuses that will come in 2021, it did not pass. An inquiry has been promised, which has not yet come out. The INE is apparently working on it, but we don’t have the data to characterize that. And in the United States we have.” – Susana Peralta<\/p><\/blockquote>\n