Frank Cowell, Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, will give the opening lecture of the XXXVI ASEPELT congress, on July 6 at 9:30. The title of the inaugural lecture will be Tax progression, income distribution and inequality, combining applied economic theory and empirical illustration.

Frank Cowell is a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge and specializes in the area of wealth distribution, inequality, poverty and taxation.

ASEPELT now has a new institutional partner: Ntic Master, a consultant specializing in new technologies and postgraduate university training for professionals in the digital economy.

We warmly welcome the new partner and hope that our mutual collaboration will be very fruitful.

We have already confirmed the composition of the round table Inequality and unequal development in Portugal and Spain, which will be held within the acts of the XXXVI International Congress of Applied Economics ASEPELT, on July 7, 2023, at 2:30 p.m., in University of Evora (Portugal).

The participants in the round table will be:

• Aurora Galego (UE, Specialist on inequality in Portugal and across the world)
• Nuno Alves (Head DEE-Department of Economic Studies, Bank of Portugal, ECB).
• Juan Francisco Gimeno Serrano (Adviser, DG Economics, Statistics and Research, Bank of Spain).
• José Mª Méndez (Head of Area Statistics on Household Incomes and Living Condition, National Institute of Statistics, Spain).

We hope to have the presence of our colleagues in this fascinating event.