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APPLIED ECONOMICS LETTERS
卷 19, 期 6, 页码 533-535出版社
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2011.587762
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human development; inequality; Gini; Theil
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Taking as a reference the new human development index introduced by the UN in 2010, we study inequality in the world with respect to achievements in human development. We consider four of the most widely known measures of inequality: the Gini, Theil, Atkinson and Kolm indices. We analyse the evolution of each index over the whole history of UN human development reports (every 5 years, from 1980 to 2010). We find that according to the Gini, Theil and Atkinson measures, the world was significantly more equal in 2010 than in 1980. However, the Kolm index shows that the distribution of human development has worsened.
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