Inequality in Multidimensional Indicators of Well-Being: Methodology and Application to the Human Development Index

Quentin Wodon and Shlomo Yitzhaki

Chapter 17 in Modeling Income Distributions and Lorenz Curves, 2008, pp 303-317 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Inequality measures for multidimensional indicators of well-being may be sensitive to the weights used for weighting the various dimensions taken into account in the overall indicator. This paper provides a general yet simple method for assessing whether the Gini index of inequality is sensitive to changes in weights. The method is applied to the Human Development Index (HDI). Changing the weights used to compute the HDI would not change significantly world inequality in human development.

Keywords: Weighting Scheme; Human Development Index; Gini Index; United Nations Development Programme; Inequality Measure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-72796-7_17

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