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arial, sans-serif;">July 2021</strong></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">On July 9, 2021 the General Assembly of the <a href="http://www.ecineq.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Society for the Study of Economic Inequality</a> (ECINEQ) appointed Nora Lustig as President-elect of the organization. Founded in 2005, ECINEQ provides an international forum for all researchers interested in the analysis of economic inequality and related fields. ECINEQ has now over 300 members from more than seventy countries. Professor Lustig is the first woman President-elect. Her term is for the period 2023-2025. <a href="https://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/piketty-thomas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thomas Piketty</a> is the past president and <a href="https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/people/academic-staff/Professor-Stephen-Jenkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Jenkins</a> is the current one.</span></p> <hr> <p><span style="color: #000000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><br>December, 2020</strong></span></span></p> <p><a href="https://commitmentoequity.org/2020/09/30/the-ceq-institute-entered-into-a-fiscal-analysis-partnership-with-the-millennium-challenge-corporation/8178/">The CEQ Institute Entered Into A Fiscal Analysis Partnership With The Millennium Challenge Corporation</a><strong><br></strong></p> <hr> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><br></strong></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>December, 2019</strong></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;">In response to The Economist’s November 28th cover story <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/11/28/inequality-could-be-lower-than-you-think?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Economist_Films&utm_campaign=Link_Description&utm_term=&utm_content=&linkId=100000009274729" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/11/28/inequality-could-be-lower-than-you-think?utm_source%3DFacebook%26utm_medium%3DEconomist_Films%26utm_campaign%3DLink_Description%26utm_term%3D%26utm_content%3D%26linkId%3D100000009274729&source=gmail&ust=1578958509211000&usg=AFQjCNHAxgCFDU7p_BLHaTueNn9BAhuVhw">Inequality could be lower than you think</a>, the CEQ Institute and its director Nora Lustig join many others in calling for transparent inequality data in WID World’s open letter <a href="http://commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Exiting-from-the-Dark-Ages-of-Inequality-Data.pdf">“Exiting from the dark ages of inequality data.”</a></span></span></p> <hr> <p><strong style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br>July 1, 2019</strong></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://commitmentoequity.org/2019/07/01/tax-to-finance-the-sdgs-but-not-to-undermine-them">Tax to Finance the SDGs, but not to Undermine Them</a></span></p> <hr> <p><span style="color: #000000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong><br>July 9, 2018</strong></span></p> </div> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://commitmentoequity.org/2018/07/09/the-paris-school-of-economics-interviews-ceqs-director-nora-lustig">The Paris School of Economics interviews CEQ’s Director, Nora Lustig.</a></span></p> </div> <hr> <div class="noteNew"> <div class="noteNew"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong><br>May 25, 2018</strong></span></div> </div> <div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://commitmentoequity.org/2018/05/25/ceq-institute-data-center-receives-nsf-grant">CEQ Institute Data Center receives NSF Grant</a>.</span></div> <div> </div> <div><hr></div> <div class="noteNew"> <div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #000000;"><br>April 19, 2018<br></b></span></div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #333333;">We are pleased to announce that the CEQ Institute’s Research Associate Ali Enami is a 2018 recipient of the Lawrence M v D Schloss Prize for Excellence in Economics, awarded by the Tulane University Department of Economics. Please join us in congratulating Ali, a very deserving recipient of this award. </span><br></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://commitmentoequity.org/2018/04/19/Ali-Enami-receives-Schloss+Prize"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;">Read More</span></span></a></span></p> <hr> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="dateNews"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #000000;"><b>February 2, 2018<br></b></span><br></span></span><span style="color: #333333;">CEQ Institute and World Bank sign agreement to collaborate on data-sharing and training.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://commitmentoequity.org/2018/02/28/ceq-institute-and-the-world-bank-sign-mou">Read More</a></span></p> <hr></div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span style="color: #000000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>November 10, 2017 <br></strong></span><br><span class="dateNews" style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Nora Lustig, CEQ’s Director, receives President Emeritus recognition from The Latin American and the Caribbean Economic Association.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Announcement_President_Emeritus_Oct_26.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Official Announcement (LACEA)</a></span></p> <hr></div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">July 7, 2017</span><br></strong><span style="color: #333333;"><br>The CEQ Institute partners with WID.world.</span></span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/2017/07/07/ceq-institute-parters-with-wid-world/">Read More</a><br></span></p> <hr> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span class="dateNews"><span style="color: #000000;">June 2, 2017<br></span><br></span></strong><span class="dateNews">Nora Lustig joined the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/17qlqa4z9og4wjw/Press%20Release%20on%20Eminent%20Persons%20Group%20on%20Global%20Financial%20Governance%20%282....pdf?dl=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">G20 Eminent Persons Group</a></span></span>(EPG) on Global Financial Governance. The EPG is chaired by Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore. </span><span class="dateNews">The mandate of the Group will be fulfilled with the delivery of final recommendations by the time of the IMF/WBG Annual Meetings 2018.<br></span></span></p> <hr> <p><span style="color: #000000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>January 23, 2017 <br></strong></span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Nora Lustig argues that governments should design their tax and transfers system so that the poor do not end up as net payers. </span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.crop.org/CROPNewsEvents/Fiscal-Redistribution-to-Combat-Inequality-and-Poverty-in-Low-and-Middle-Income-Countries.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> http://www.crop.org/CROPNewsEvents/Fiscal-Redistribution-to-Combat-Inequality-and-Poverty-in-Low-and-Middle-Income-Countries.aspx</a><br></span></span></p> <hr></div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span class="dateNews"><span style="color: #000000;">January 21, 2017 <br></span><br></span></strong>Eliminating gasoline subsidies in Mexico, wiped out the benefits to the poor from government cash transfers (by John Scott, Research Associate of the CEQ Institute) </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.animalpolitico.com/blogueros-blog-mexico-como-vamos/2017/01/17/gasolinazo-pobreza-la-redistribucion-incumplida/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Gasolinazo y pobreza: la redistribución incumplida</a></span></p> <hr> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span class="dateNews"><span style="color: #000000;">January 12, 2017 <br></span><br></span></strong>CEQ signs agreement with Ghana Ministry of Finance to conduct training workshop in Accra, Jan 12, 2017</span></p> <hr> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span class="dateNews"><span style="color: #000000;">January 7, 2017 <br></span><br></span></strong>A tribute to Anthony Atkinson (1944-2017) by Nora Lustig:</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The first day of the year, our profession lost one of its most brilliant thinkers and fine human beings: Sir Anthony Atkinson. For those of us whose research has focused on inequality and social justice, the loss is incommensurable. Read the tribute from his colleagues at ECINEQ (The Society for the Study of Economic Inequality), of which Tony was the first president:<a href="http://www.ecineq.org/image/TonyAtkinsonFinalVersion1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.ecineq.org/image/TonyAtkinsonFinalVersion1.pdf</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/images/2017_01_Anthony_Atkinson.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img data-tf-not-load="1" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/images/2017_01_Anthony_Atkinson.jpg" width="944" height="708"></a></span></p> </div> </div> <div class="noteNew"><hr> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span class="dateNews">October 10, 2016<br></span></strong>Nora Lustig presented “Fiscal Redistribution in Low and Middle Income Countries” at OECD’s Development Centre in Paris, France.</span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/events_files/2016_10/Lustig_CEQ%20FiscalRedistributionIneqPoor_OECD_Paris_Oct%2010%202016_revised.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Click here to view presentation</a></span></p> </div> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-717 aligncenter" src="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/30172767641_c2b6b4dcc0_o-1-300x215.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" srcset="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/30172767641_c2b6b4dcc0_o-1-300x215.jpg 300w, http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/30172767641_c2b6b4dcc0_o-1-768x549.jpg 768w, http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/30172767641_c2b6b4dcc0_o-1-1024x732.jpg 1024w" alt="30172767641_c2b6b4dcc0_o" width="300" height="215"></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-718 aligncenter" src="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Expert-Meeting-0159-300x200.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" srcset="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Expert-Meeting-0159-300x200.jpg 300w, http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Expert-Meeting-0159-768x512.jpg 768w, http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Expert-Meeting-0159-1024x683.jpg 1024w" alt="© Andrew Wheeler all rights reserved worldwide 7 rue Saint Andre, 76000, Rouen, FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)6 32 68 06 42 andrewjpwheeler@gmail.com www.andrewwheeler.com www.andrewphotos.com" width="300" height="200"></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span class="dateNews">April 13, 2016 <br></span></strong>Nora Lustig shares her perspective on How to Achieve an Equity Agenda. Interview conducted by OAS’s Department of Social Inclusion.</span></p> <p><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/161709942" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" data-mce-fragment="1"></iframe></p> <hr> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span class="dateNews">January 29, 2016 </span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">CEQ signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Organization of American States to deepen the relationship between the two institutions and look for ways to cooperate on joint project, programs and activities in the are of social inclusion, equity and social protection.</span></p> <div id="attachment_658" class="wp-caption aligncenter"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-658 size-medium" src="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CEQOEA1-300x214.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" srcset="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CEQOEA1-300x214.jpg 300w, http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CEQOEA1-768x548.jpg 768w, http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CEQOEA1.jpg 1024w" alt="ceqoea1" width="300" height="214"></span></p> <p class="wp-caption-text"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">OAS Secretary General, Luis Almagro Lemes shakes hands with Ludovico Feoli, CEQ’s Director of Policy Area.</span></p> </div> <div id="attachment_659" class="wp-caption aligncenter"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-659 size-medium" src="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ceqoea2-300x225.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" srcset="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ceqoea2-300x225.jpg 300w, http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ceqoea2-768x576.jpg 768w, http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ceqoea2.jpg 1024w" alt="ceqoea2" width="300" height="225"></span></p> <p class="wp-caption-text"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">CEQ’s Director, Nora Lustig, elaborates on CEQ’s mission and the pivotal role the assessments can play in policymaking.</span></p> </div> <hr> <p class="main"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span class="dateNews">November 2, 2015</span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Nora Lustig awarded 4.9 million dollars by Gates Foundation for the Commitment to Equity Institute.</span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/gates-grant/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Click here to read announcement</a></span></p> <hr> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>October 29, 2015<br></strong></span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Stephen Younger presented the CEQ Assessment in Accra, Ghana.</span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org//events_files/Accra_Oct_29_2015.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Click here to view presentation</a></span></p> <hr> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>October 10, 2015<br></strong></span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Prof. Claudiney Pereira presented the Commitment to Equity methods and cross-country results at a the “Igualdad y erradicación de la pobreza” Workshop in Quito, Ecuador.</span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/taller-ecuador/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Click here to learn more</a></span></p> <hr> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>September 26, 2015 <br></strong></span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">CEQ Training Workshop in Asunción, Paraguay.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Tulane doctoral student Sean Higgins training Paraguay’s Ministry of Finance staff on the application of the CEQ methodology at a workshop organized by the World Bank in Asunción.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-679 aligncenter" src="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/SeanHigginsCEQ-WBTrainingWrkshp@Asuncion_Paraguay_Sep-2015-300x144.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" srcset="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/SeanHigginsCEQ-WBTrainingWrkshp@Asuncion_Paraguay_Sep-2015-300x144.jpg 300w, http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/SeanHigginsCEQ-WBTrainingWrkshp@Asuncion_Paraguay_Sep-2015.jpg 640w" alt="seanhigginsceq-wbtrainingwrkshpasuncion_paraguay_sep-2015" width="300" height="144"></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org//events_files/Accra_Oct_29_2015.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Download PowerPoint Presentation</a></span></p> <hr> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>September 25, 2015<br></strong></span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">CEQ New Publications in 2015</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Cabrera, Maynor, Nora Lustig and Hilcias Moran. 2015. “Fiscal Policy, Inequality and the Ethnic Divide in Guatemala.”World Development,Vol. 76, pp. 263–279.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Higgins, Sean, Nora Lustig, Whitney Ruble and Timothy Smeeding. 2015. “Comparing the Incidence of Taxes and Social Spending in Brazil and the United States.” Review of Income and Wealth, Published Onlines May 24, 2015, DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12201.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Lustig, Nora. 2015. “Income redistribution and poverty reduction in Latin America: the role of social spending and taxation in achieving development goals,” Development Journal – Society for International Development, Volume 57 Issue 3-4 (Double Issue), September.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Lustig, Nora. 2015. “The Redistributive Impact of Government Spending on Education and Health: Evidence from 13 Developing Countries in the Commitment to Equity Project” Chapter 17 inGupta, Sanjeev, Michael Keen, Benedict Clements and Ruud de Mooij, editors, Inequality and Fiscal Policy, Washington: International Monetary Fund.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Lustig, Nora. 2015. “Inequality and Fiscal Redistribution in Emerging Economies” in Chapter 7 in In it Together: Why Less Inequality Benefits All. OECD Publishing. May.</span></p> <hr> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>July 6, 2015<br></strong></span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">VoxLACEA blog “How middle class are middle-income households in Latin America?” </span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.vox.lacea.org/?q=blog/middle-class-households-latam" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Click here to view blog post</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>7/6/2015</strong></span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">FUSADES publication (Fundación Salvadoreña para el Desarrollo Económico y Social) utilizing CEQ findings to support policy proposals. </span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">It is available at the <a href="http://publications.iadb.org/handle/11319/6986" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Inter-American Development Bank</a> and at <a href="http://fusades.org/node/6742" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FUSADES</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>6/23/2015</strong></span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Nora Lustig will serve on the World Bank’s Commission on Global Poverty announced today. The Commission’s mandate is to report on the best ways to measure and monitor poverty and deprivation around the world. </span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/commission-global-poverty/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Click here to learn more</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>6/23/2015</strong></span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">A missing target in the SDGs: Tax systems should not reduce the income of the poor. </span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theigc.org/blog/a-missing-target-in-the-sdgs-tax-systems-should-not-reduce-the-income-of-the-poor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Click here to read more</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>4/16/2015</strong></span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">CEQ data is featured in the <a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/lac-equity-lab1/fiscal" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">World Bank’s LAC (Latin America and the Caribbean) Equity Lab</a>. </span></p> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span class="dateNews">4/16/2015</span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Check out <a href="http://www.cgdev.org/expert/charles-kenny" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Charles Kenny’s</a> <a href="http://www.cgdev.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Center for Global Development</a> blog <a href="http://www.cgdev.org/blog/lets-mobilize-right-domestic-resources-development" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“Let’s Mobilize the Right Domestic Resources for Development.” </a></span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Charles cites Nora Lustig’s Commitment to Equity results.</span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span class="dateNews">4/15/2015</span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Check out CEQ Director Nora Lustig’s co-authored blog, <a href="https://www.ids.ac.uk/opinion/the-sustainable-development-goals-reject-tax-targeting">“The Sustainable Development Goals – Reject Tax Targeting”</a> on the<a href="http://www.ids.ac.uk/">Institute for Development Studies’ (IDS) website</a>.</span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The blog was co-authored by:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Mick Moore, CEO of the <a href="http://www.ids.ac.uk/idsresearch/international-centre-for-tax-and-development-ictd">International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD)</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.noralustig.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nora Lustig, Professor of Economics at Tulane University</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/FacultyAndResearch/Faculty/FacultyBios/Bird.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Richard Bird, Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cgdev.org/expert/nancy-birdsall" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nancy Birdsall, President of the Center for Global Development</a> (CGDev)</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Research Director of the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) and <a href="http://www.cmi.no/staff/?odd-fjeldstad" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Senior Researcher at Chr. Michelsen Institute</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/people/richard-manning" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Richard Manning, Senior Research Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Wilson Prichard, Research Director of the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) and<a href="http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/profile/wilson-prichard/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto</a></span></li> </ul> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span class="dateNews">2/24/2015</span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The World Bank’s Ethiopia Poverty Assessment 2014 is now available. Chapter 5 summarizes the findings of the CEQ assessment. <a href="http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/01/24047887/ethiopia-poverty-assessment" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Click here to access the report.</a></span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">5/7/2014</span></p> <h4><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">NEW CG PARTNDERSHIP: COMMITMENT TO EQUITY ASSESSMENTS OF IMPACT OF FISCAL POLICY</span></h4> <p class="content"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">We are pleased to announce a new <a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Commitment to Equity (CEQ)</a>partnership with the <a href="http://www.cgdev.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Center for Global Development (CGD)</a>. CGD works to reduce global poverty and inequality through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community to make the world a more prosperous, just, and safe place for us all. CGD’s role as a partner of CEQ will be to share the global reach of their communications platform. Through a new <a href="http://www.cgdev.org/commitmentequity" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Commitment to Equity sub-topic</a> within their <a href="http://www.cgdev.org/topics/inequality" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">inequality topic</a>, they will post links to CEQ studies as they become available, the CEQ papers that are jointly published with CGD, and occasional blog posts. We look forward to working with CGD and are honored to have it as a CEQ partner.</span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">5/1/2014</span></p> <h4><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/global-prosperity-wonkcast/e/the-commitment-to-equity-assessment-ceq-nora-lustig-34500033?refid=asi_eml&autoplay=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CEQ ON THE CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT’S GLOBAL PROSPERITY WONKCAST</a></span></h4> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Please check out the Global Prosperity Wonkcast from May 2014 featuring Dr. Nora Lustig, the CEQ Director. This Wonkcast is produced by the Center for Global Development (CGD) and features international development experts discussing how wealthy countries can promote prosperity in developing counties.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><b>Episode Title: The Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ) – Nora Lustig, May 2014</b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">About the Episode: Many governments try to reduce poverty and inequality through a mixture of taxes, transfers, and public services. Individual policies, such as taxation or cash transfers, are frequently evaluated on how well they address these goals. But the overall impact of a country’s fiscal policy package on poverty and inequality has rarely been subject to systematic analysis—until now. Nora Lustig, a non-resident fellow at CGD and a professor at Tulane, has set out to close this gap with the Commitment to Equity Assessment or CEQ. I invited Nora to tell us about this new endeavor. Nora explains that the CEQ is both a virtual toolbox—that is, a common analytical approach—and a global network of researchers who are applying this approach in a series of country case studies. CEQ partner institutions include Tulane University, the Inter-American Dialogue, and now CGD, which is helping to bring the approach and the case study findings to a broad international audience. These materials will be collected on a CEQ landing page that is part of the Center’s ongoing work on inequality. The assessment initially focused on Latin America, the region Nora knows best. But with encouragement and funding from the World Bank and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the CEQ is growing rapidly to include countries in other regions, among them South Africa, Tanzania, Ghana, Tunisia, Armenia, Jordan, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. What exactly can we learn from such assessments? Nora offers Brazil as an example. Brazil is reputed to be well-run and pro-poor in its policies, especially for direct taxes and cash transfer programs such as Bolsa Familia.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/global-prosperity-wonkcast/e/the-commitment-to-equity-assessment-ceq-nora-lustig-34500033?refid=asi_eml&autoplay=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Click Here</a></span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">1/23/2014</span></p> <p class="content"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Nora Lustig was appointed Vice-chair of the Board of Directors of the Global Development Network (<a href="http://www.gdn.int/">GDN</a>), a public International Organization that builds research capacity in development globally.</span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">1/23/2014</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">(Spanish) Entrevista a Nora Lustig por el Programa de Género y Diversidad del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo. ¿Consiguen los impuestos y el gasto social recortar la brecha que existe entre los ingresos de los que más ganan y los que menos, tienen de una forma equitativa para todos los grupos raciales y étnicos? <a href="http://vimeo.com/82214156">Ver entrevista</a></span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">1/14/2014</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Nora Lustig featured in the Latin America Advisor Q & A, “What is the State of Poverty and Inequality in Latin America?”<a href="http://www.thedialogue.org/uploads/LAA/Daily/2014/LAA140114.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Click Here</a></span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">11/30/2013</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">New CEQ WP 16 by Higgins, Lustig, Ruble and Smeeding compares the incidence of taxes and transfers in Brazil and the United States <a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/publications_files/Methodology/CEQWPNo1%20Handbook%20Edition%20Sept%202013.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Click Here</a></span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">11/26/2013</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">(Spanish) Entrevista a Nora Lustig por el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo ¿Por qué los retornos a la educación se han reducido en América Latina? <a href="https://vimeo.com/80319542/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ver entrevista</a></span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">11/8/2013</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Gates Foundation awards US$580,000 to Tulane University to apply the CEQ in Ghana and Tanzania</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Nora Lustig –Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Economics, senior associate research fellow at CIPR and nonresident fellow at the Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue– has been awarded a US$580,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in low-income countries.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Lustig is co-founder and director of the Commitment to Equity (CEQ)–a project jointly sponsored by CIPR and the Department of Economics at Tulane University and the Inter-American Dialogue–designed to analyze the impact of taxes and social spending on inequality and poverty, and to provide a roadmap for governments, multilateral institutions, and nongovernmental organizations in their efforts to build more equitable societies (www.commitmenttoequity.org). To date, the project has analyzed and compared the incidence of taxation and social spending in twelve Latin American countries, and studies are currently under way in three additional Latin American countries and six countries in other regions of the world.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The grant will enable Lustig and her team to implement the analysis in two pilot countries in Africa, Ghana and Tanzania, as well as to adapt the CEQ methodology to encompass the idiosyncrasies of low-income countries. She will work alongside co-principal investigators James Alm, Chair of the Economics Department, and Sean Higgins, Economics PhD student.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">By undertaking a thorough and transparent analysis of who bears the burden of taxation and who receives the benefits of public spending, the project ultimately hopes to foster evidence-based policy discussion and, ideally, implementation of reforms related to taxation, public spending, and social programs in the two countries.</span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">10/18/2013</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Commitment to Equity Conference convenes researchers and multilateral organizations;<a href="http://cipr.tulane.edu/articles/detail/1405/Commitment-to-Equity-Conference-convenes-researchers-and-multilateral-organizations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Click here</a></span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">9/23/2013</span></p> <h4><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">ICEFI WORKSHOP</span></h4> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">ICEFI holds a kick-off workshop to launch a rural-urban CEQ in Central American countries with funding from IFAD. For more information<a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/events_files/2013_09/CEQ%20Taller%20Guatemala%20Programa%2023_24%20SEP.docx"> click here.</a></span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">9/19/2013</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Lustig quoted in Washington Post, Sept 19, 2013 <a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/News/tackling%20income%20inequality.docx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">click here</a></span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">9/15/2013</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">How redistributive is the United States compared to Brazil? <a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/events_files/HigginsLustigRubleSmeeding_Rio-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Click here</a></span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">9/14/2013</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Handbook had a makeover; please see new version by <a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/publications_files/Methodology/CEQWPNo1%20Handbook%20Edition%20Sept%202013.pdf">clicking here</a></span><a id="7-22-2013"></a></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">7/22/2013</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The Brazilian government announced on Monday, July 22, a R$10 billion (about US$4.5 billion) budget cut for 2013. The budget cuts can be divided into two groups:</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">1) Revision of future outlays. In particular, subsidies especially to agriculture and transfers to social security (about R$4.4 billion).</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">2) Cuts on discretionary expenditures as travel, electricity, and so on.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Social programs will not be affected and cuts do not affect MINHA CASA, MINHA VIDA program. More details can be found at: <a href="http://www.brasil.gov.br/para/press/press-releases/july-2013/government-announces-r-10-billion-reduction-in-spending-1/view">http://www.brasil.gov.br/para/press/press-releases/july-2013/government-announces-r-10-billion-reduction-in-spending-1/view</a></span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">6/10/2013</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">On June 10-12, the CEQ project joined forces with the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management group of the World Bank to launch pilot studies in Armenia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa and Sri Lanka. <a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wbglobal.php">To learn more, click here</a>.</span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">6/5/2013</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>CEQ Assessments were presented in LASA, the Inter-American Dialogue and the World Bank in June. </strong><a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/events.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Click here if you want to see the presentations</a></span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">5/6/2013</span></p> <h4><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">¿ES ARGENTINA UN MODELO DE POLÍTICAS REDISTRIBUTIVAS?</span></h4> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">¿Es Argentina un modelo de políticas redistributivas? Nora Lustig y Carola Pessino</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://focoeconomico.org/2013/05/06/es-argentina-un-modelo-de-politicas-redistributivas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span class="blue">Read article</span></a></span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">4/28/2013</span></p> <h4><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">¿QUÉ TAN COMPROMETIDOS ESTÁN LOS GOBIERNOS DE AMÉRICA LATINA CON LA EQUIDAD? BY NORA LUSTIG</span></h4> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://focoeconomico.org/2013/04/28/que-tan-comprometidos-estan-los-gobiernos-de-america-latina-con-la-equidad/#comment-8750" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span class="blue">Read article</span></a><br></strong></span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">4/22/2013</span></p> <h4><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">TAXES, SOCIAL SPENDING AND INCOME REDISTRIBUTION IN LATIN AMERICA</span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">– NORA LUSTIG</span></h4> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Fiscal Policy, Equity and Long-Term Growth in Developing Countries</span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">IMF and World Bank Washington, DC – April 21 and 22, 2013</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/events_files/Lustig_IMF-WB_Fiscal_IncidenceApr_23_2013.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span class="blue">Click here to Download</span></a></span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">4/16/2013</span></p> <h4><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON LOUISIANAS TAX DEBATE</span></h4> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Gov. Jindal has dropped his original tax plan to replace income tax revenue by raising the sales tax rate, extending the sales tax to services and increasing the tax on cigarettes, but his top priority is still to “overhaul the tax code and eliminate income taxes.” Professors Jim Alm, Nora Lustig, and Steven Sheffrin discuss implications of changing the tax code. <a href="http://www.noralustig.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Roundtable-discussion-on-Louisianas-Tax-Debate.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span class="blue">Click here to Download</span></a></span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">4/2/2013</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Listen to the experts present their results (in Spanish) by <a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/events_videos.php#video1"><span class="blue">clicking here..</span></a></span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">4/1/2013</span></p> <h4><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">CEQ WORKING PAPER 13 NOW AVAILABLE</span></h4> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The Working Paper, which is available <a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/publications/latinamerica.php">here</a>, provides an overview of the impact of taxes and social spending on inequality and poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay.</span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">3/21/2013</span></p> <h4><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">CEQ FEATURED AT COLOMBIA EQUITY DAY EVENT</span></h4> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">On March 12, CEQ’s work in Colombia was featured prominently in an Equity Day event co-organized by the World Bank and the Government of Colombia. Follow the links below to view the event agenda and the PowerPoint presentation about CEQ. </span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> – <a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/News/AgendaFinalFinal.pdf">Agenda </a></span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> – <a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/News/Presentacion%20EQUITY%20DAY%20WB.pdf">PowerPoint Presentation</a></span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">3/13/13</span></p> <h4><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">BRAZIL ELIMINATES FEDERAL INDIRECT TAXES ON BASIC NEEDS BASKET</span></h4> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">On March 8, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced the end of federal indirect taxes on all items in the basic needs basket (primarily food), effective immediately. Although basic needs will still be taxed at the state level, this will reduce their cost by between 9.25% and 12.5%, depending on the product. The estimated yearly cost to the government of these tax expenditures is R$ 7.3 billion (about US$3.75 billion). The <a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/publications/brazil.php">CEQ study for Brazil</a> has shown that indirect taxes paid by the poor often surpass the cash benefits they receive from the government; this measure will therefore not only reduce inflation but also contribute to reducing poverty.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Listen to President Rouseff: <a href="http://blog.planalto.gov.br/em-pronunciamento-dilma-rousseff-anuncia-desoneracao-da-cesta-basica/">Click here for video</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Learn more about the announced policy change: </span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> – <a href="http://economia.terra.com.br/noticias/noticia.aspx?idNoticia=201303082337_TRR_82066426">Article in <i>Terra</i></a> </span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> – <a href="http://epocanegocios.globo.com/Informacao/Acao/noticia/2013/03/dilma-rousseff-corta-impostos-federais-sobre-itens-da-cesta-basica.html">Article in <i>Epoca Negocios</i></a> </span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> – <a href="http://economia.uol.com.br/noticias/valor-online/2013/03/08/governo-desonera-produtos-da-cesta-basica.htm">Article in <i>UOL Economia</i></a></span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">1/31/13</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Fiscal incidence studies were completed in seven countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. Four are in progress: Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. Two are in the works: Ecuador and El Salvador.</span></p> </div> <div class="noteNew"> <p><span class="dateNews" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">1/13/13</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Version 3 of Handbook is available, <a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/publications/methodology.php">here.</a> </span></p> </div> </div> </div>  </div> </div> </div> <div data-lazy="1" class="module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_o3mx942 last"> </div> </div> </div> </div>   </div>  </div>  </main>  </div>  </div> <div id="footerwrap" class="tf_box tf_clear "> <footer id="footer" class="tf_box pagewidth tf_scrollbar tf_rel tf_clearfix" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/WPFooter"> <div class="back-top tf_textc tf_clearfix back-top-float back-top-hide"><div class="arrow-up"><a aria-label="Back to top" href="#header"><span class="screen-reader-text">Back To Top</span></a></div></div> <div class="main-col first tf_clearfix"> <div class="footer-left-wrap first"> <div class="footer-logo-wrapper tf_clearfix"> <div id="footer-logo"><a href="http://commitmentoequity.org" title="CEQ Institute"><span>CEQ Institute</span></a></div>  </div> </div> <div class="footer-right-wrap"> <div class="footer-nav-wrap"> </div>  <div class="footer-text tf_clear tf_clearfix"> <div class="footer-text-inner"> <div class="one">© CEQ Institute 2022 </div><div class="two"> </div> </div> </div>  </div> </div> <div class="section-col tf_clearfix"> <div class="footer-widgets-wrap"> <div class="footer-widgets tf_clearfix"> <div class="col4-1 first tf_box tf_float"> <div id="text-5" class="widget widget_text"> <div class="textwidget"><a href="http://www.commitmentoequity.org/contactus/" class="shortcode button xlarge black outline">Contact Us</a></div> </div><div id="text-6" class="widget widget_text"> <div class="textwidget"><p><a href="http://commitmentoequity.org/privacy-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Privacy Policy</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col4-1 tf_box tf_float"> <div id="themify-social-links-2" class="widget themify-social-links"><h4 class="widgettitle">Stay Connected</h4><ul class="social-links horizontal"> <li class="social-link-item twitter font-icon icon-large"> <a href="https://twitter.com/ceqinstitute" aria-label="twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em style="color:rgba(67, 128, 148, 1);"><svg aria-label="Twitter" class="tf_fa tf-fab-twitter" role="img"><use href="#tf-fab-twitter"></use></svg></em> </a> </li>  <li class="social-link-item facebook font-icon icon-large"> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/commitmentoequity/" aria-label="facebook" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em style="color:rgba(67, 128, 148, 1);"><svg aria-label="Facebook" class="tf_fa tf-fab-facebook" role="img"><use href="#tf-fab-facebook"></use></svg></em> </a> </li>  <li class="social-link-item youtube font-icon icon-large"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1p6th00R-FrACkjJ86Oz6A" aria-label="youtube" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em style="color:rgba(67, 128, 148, 1);"><svg aria-label="YouTube" class="tf_fa tf-fab-youtube" role="img"><use href="#tf-fab-youtube"></use></svg></em> </a> </li> </ul></div> </div> <div class="col4-1 tf_box tf_float"> <div id="text-3" class="widget widget_text"> <div class="textwidget"><p style="text-align:justify">Copyrights to CEQ materials on this website are owned and/or administered by Tulane University. 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