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Gerton Rongen is a PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a PhD Fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD). His research interests include poverty, inequality and development. Some of his work so far has been on poverty dynamics and income mobility in Malaysia, adjusting survey-based measures of inequality for missing top incomes (with an application to Mumbai, India) and the impact evaluation of a water and sanitation program in Durban, South Africa. Moreover, Rongen is interested in perceptions of inequality and the political implications of inequality.

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  • Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam | Member Advisory Council, College & Graduate School Social Sciences | 2022-10-04 - present

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Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 1 - No Poverty
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities

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