Trends in Mediterranean Inequalities 1950-2015

Daniele, Vittorio and Malanima, Paolo (2016): Trends in Mediterranean Inequalities 1950-2015.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the trends of economic, social and political 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. The main result is that inequalities in income, after the rise from the 1950s onwards, declined from the start of the twenty-first century. Inequa¬lities in HDI, instead, constantly diminished in the period under examination, while a process of democratization occurred. On the whole, despite the conver-gence among Mediter¬ranean countries, economic inequalities are much deeper than those in social and political indicators.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: inequalities, HDI, convergence, Mediterranean economies
• Subjects: I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty > I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity > O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O5 - Economywide Country Studies

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