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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2007
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Göttingen 2007 No. 12
Verlag: 
Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer, Göttingen
Zusammenfassung: 
One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that is does not take into account inequality within countries. We suggest a relatively easy and intuitive approach which allows to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows comparisons of the level in human development of the poor and non-poor within and across countries. An empirical illustration shows large discrepancies in human development within countries especially in Africa. These discrepancies are lower the higher the HDI, but only weekly so. Inequality in income is generally higher than inequality in education and life-expectancy.
Schlagwörter: 
Human Development
Income Inequality
Differential Mortality
Inequality in Education
Dokumentart: 
Conference Paper

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