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2017, Ceteris Paribus: Journal of Socioeconomic Research
This research note applies the latest methodology of the United Nations Development Program to approximate the Human Development Index (HDI) and the Inequality Adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), along with other inequality measures for the case of Puerto Rico. Human Development Index Trends and Inequality in Puerto Rico 2010-2015. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316921010_Human_Development_Index_Trends_and_Inequality_in_Puerto_Rico_2010-2015 [accessed Sep 8, 2017].
2014
This paper applies the latest methodology from the United Nations Development Programme to approximate Puerto Rico’s Human Development Index (HDI) and Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) for 2012. Results show that Puerto Rico’s HDI places it in the category of very high human development, while the IHDI places it in the category of medium human development. Thus, there is a substantial gap between potential human development and actual human development due to prevailing levels of income inequality on the island.
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2004
Nowadays, methodological and technological innovations allow us to easily perform statistical tests on the significance of changes between inequality indices across places or time. The use of the bootstrapping techniques allows us to define sampling distributions for the inequality indices for which asymptotic distributions are difficult to derive due to their nonlinear nature. This technique presents a statistically sound way to test the significance of the differences in inequality indices. This paper contributes to the existing literature by combining three key elements that allow a comprehensive view of inequality changes overtime in Puerto Rico. First, It compares changes in household income with changes in household earnings between 1970 and 2000. Second, it uses different inequality measures selected according their sensitivity to changes in different parts of the income distribution. This analysis is important as a starting point to the study of why inequality changes overti...
report - Sandra Dika, Rima Brusi and Walter Díaz. Contains four papers based on original research (quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods) at the CUA-Center for University Access, University of Puerto Rico.
2020
Volume 12 | Number 2 | March-April, 2020 UNIVERSIDAD Y SOCIEDAD | Have Scientific of the University of Cienfuegos | ISSN: 2218-3620 Presentation date: December, 2019 Date of acceptance: January, 2020 Publication date: March, 2020 57 IMPACTO DE VARIABLES SOCIOECONÓMICAS EN EL ÍNDICE DE DESARROLLO HUMANO DE LAS ECONOMÍAS LATINOAMERICANAS OF SOCIOECONOMIC VARIABLES IN THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX OF THE LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIES IMPACT
RIDE Revista Iberoamericana Para La Investigación Y El Desarrollo Educativo, , 2023
Inequality in Mexico leads to a series of consequences that affect the quality of life in the states of the country and it is necessary to measure the impact that this variable has on the well-being, to generate better public mechanisms. The objective of this research is to analyze the effects of the relationship between inequality, income and the human development index, through the application of a panel data methodology, in the 32 states of the country from 2008 to 2018, using data from the National Household Income and Expenditure Survey. The results show that there is an inverse correlation between the variables, therefore, the possible incidence of reducing inequality favors better levels of the human development index. In conclusion, the correct distribution of income contributes to improving health and education, that is, to improve the living standards.
2016
Social inequality is at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. For Latin America —the world’s most unequal region— social inequality also represents a structural feature and therefore a fundamental challenge. In response to the mandate conferred upon the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) by the countries at the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Lima in November 2015, this document pursues the analysis of the social inequality matrix in the region. The analysis focuses on some of the main axes that serve to structure social inequality (gender, ethnicity, race, age or stage of the life cycle, and territory) in order to illustrate how they influence the depth of the equality gaps, their persistence over time and their reproduction. Often, the multiple dimensions of inequality concatenate, intersect and exacerbate one other, hitting certain population groups harder than others. The analy...
2010
It is widely accepted that country-averages of income, literacy, life expectancy and other indicators conceal widespread human deprivation and inequality. The measures of human development based on these indicators are also averages, and therefore mask disparities in the overall population. While the Human Development Index (HDI) itself is well accepted as a summary measure of HD capabilities and achievements, there is no a consensus about how to measure inequality in the HD distribution within a country. The conceptual difficulties, as well as the lack of appropriate disaggregated data, are customarily given as major obstacles for not adjusting the HDI for inequality. The objective of this paper is to first review some recent developments in measuring inequality in the distribution of multidimensional indices such as the HDI, and second- to present a practical implementation of the Alkire and Foster (2010) adaptation of the Foster, Lopez-Calva, Szekely (2005) method. The paper will...
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