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Use of the Lorenz curve and the Gini index for the evaluation of HIV viral load distribution in an Italian community. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Arsuffi S, Salvi M, Calza S, Colombo FR, Alberti M, Fioretti B, Tiecco G, Focà E, Quiros-Roldan E.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Influencer Credibility and Responsible Tourism: A Study of Ecotourists' Economic, Socio‐Cultural, and Environmental Responsible Behaviors in Sarawak

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The tourism sector faces pressing sustainability challenges, especially during crises. The rural communities reliant on ecotourism remain vulnerable, highlighting the need for responsible tourism. This study integrates social cognitive theory (SCT) and the elaboration likelihood model (ELM) to examine how self‐efficacy and outcome expectation ...
Wei Chiang Chan, Chee Hua Chin, Winnie Poh Ming Wong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimation of quantile versions of the Lorenz curve and the Gini index for the generalized Pareto distribution. [PDF]

J Appl Stat
Jokiel-Rokita A, Siedlaczek A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Tricks with the lorenz curve [PDF]

This note develops, for the Gini coefficient of inequality, a very simple generalization that directly incorporates judgments on ‘relative inter-group inequality aversion' by making the inequality measure sensitive to the skewness of the Lorenz curve ...
Subramanian Sreenivasan
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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne, Adis Dzebo, Zoha Shawoo, Mario Cardenas, Pierrick Chalaye, Alexia Faus Onbargi, Cassilde Muhoza, Patricia Nicdao, Nokwethaba Makhanya, Navam Niles, Priyatma Singh   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing urban-rural inequality in the primary healthcare system readiness to provide postpartum care for mothers and newborns in Burkina Faso: a Gini index decomposition analysis. [PDF]

Int J Equity Health
Cisse K, Yugbaré Belemsaga D, Lougue S, Baguiya A, Bado AR, Traore S, Ouedraogo HG, Kouanda S.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Transport consumption inequalities and redistributive effects of taxes: A repeated cross-sectional evaluation on French household data [PDF]

This paper evaluates transport consumption inequalities among French households, investigates their temporal dynamics, and estimates the redistributive effects of taxes on different commodity categories.
Akli Berri
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Equity in Energy—A Critical Analysis of GESI and Energy Justice Narratives in Energy Transition

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global energy sector is transitioning from conventional energy sources to cleaner and more sustainable alternatives; however, persistent structural and social barriers continue to undermine equity and inclusivity within this transition. This study examines how Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) and Energy Justice (EJ) principles ...
Tharindu Dissanayake, Luminda Gunawardhana, Chintha Jayasinghe, Rohitha Weerasinghe, Charlotte Ray   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study on provincial carbon emission inequality in China from 1995 to 2019 based on the improved Gini index. [PDF]

Sci Rep
He F, Ning J, Qiu X, Yu S, Zhang L, Huang C.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Generalised Social Welfare Function and its Disaggregation by Components of Income: The Method and Application [PDF]

The Social Welfare Function (SWF) is a decision rule to rank alternative social states in a complete fashion in terms of social welfare. This paper questions the philosophy of Paretian Principle as a desirable property of the SWF.
Pundarik Mukhopadhaya
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