Our goal is to analyse the inequality aspects of Human Development Index and to propose a new aggregation function that … can adjust it by considering inequality penalisation. We take into account inequality across dimensions and across … individuals and three laws of inequality penalisation: decreasing, constant and increasing. At the beginning, we describe the …

The purpose of the paper is to identify areas in South Africa where social-economic disparity exists using 2011 census …; Kuznets ratio; Theil inequality index, mean logarithmic deviation, and the Atkinson index. In the study settlements are either … regarded as individual settlements or contiguous settlements as delimited at the main place level in the census. Due to the …

development gap among regions in European countries); and a multidimensional inequality-adjusted human development index as …