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Gender Inequality Index Appropriateness for Measuring Inequality

Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work, 2017
Gender inequality means unequal distribution of wealth, power, and benefits among women and men. The gender inequality index (GII) measures the lost human development in three important dimensions: reproductive health, political empowerment, and economic status.
Elham, Amin, Asma, Sabermahani
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Measuring international inequity aversion [PDF]

, 2008
I measure the rate of aversion to inequality in consumption as expressed in the development aid given by rich countries to poor ones between 1965 and 2005. Over time, OECD countries have become less concerned about international inequity. Even for a fairly leaky bucket, the consumption rate of inequity aversion is less than the rate of risk aversion ...
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Measuring Inequality

The theories on inequality are imperfect and dynamic, and the measurement of inequality is multidimensional, as Section 2 will explore. This chapter aims to give the reader insight into what scholars have to say about inequality, the measurement of inequality, and the current stand in South Africa.
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Fuzzy measurement of income inequality: a class of fuzzy inequality measures

Social Choice and Welfare, 1995
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MEASURING DISTRIBUTIONAL INEQUITY

Policy Studies Journal, 1981
AbstractBoth policy managers and policy analysts are interested in the distribution of urban public services. It seems clear, however, that minimizing service maldistribution first depends on better measurement. The Index of Inequity is a new statistical procedure designed to measure maldistribution of urban services with respect to any distributional ...
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Summary Measures of Health Inequality: A Review of Existing Measures and Their Application

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor
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Inequality measurement

European Economic Review, 1981
Frank A. Cowell, Kiyoshi Kuga
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Measuring income inequality

Australian Economic Review, 1996
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Measuring Inequality.

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General), 1978
R. J. Nicholson, F. A. Cowell
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Inequality Measurement

The Elgar Companion to Development Studies is an innovative and unique reference book that includes original contributions covering development economics as well as development studies broadly defined. This major new Companion brings together an international panel of experts from varying backgrounds who discuss theoretical, ethical and practical ...
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