Trends in Mediterranean inequalities 1950-2015

Panoeconomicus

Daniele Vittorio¹  Malanima Paolo¹ 

[1] University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy;

关键词: inequality;    human development;    political regimes;    mediterranean economies;   

DOI  :  10.2298/PAN160923012D

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This article is aimed at analysing the trends of economic, social and institutional inequality among the Mediterranean countries in the period 1950- 2015. After the examination of the inequalities in GDP per capita among and within nations, we present a Human Development Index (HDI) that includes a measure of democratic achievements. Main result is that inequalities in income, after the rise from the 1950s onwards, declined from the start of the twenty-first century. Inequalities in HDI, instead, constantly diminished in the period under examination, while a process of democratization occurred. On the whole, despite the convergence among Mediterranean countries, economic inequalities are much deeper than those in social indicators.

【 授权许可】

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