The EU cohesion policy seeks to mitigate imbalances between countries and regions and
enhance greater economic development of the whole Union. However, notwithstanding its …

In the traditional framework, social welfare functions depend on the mean income and on the
income inequality. An alternative illfare framework has been developed to take into account …

In a recent paper Ali and Son (2007) suggested measuring the concept of" inclusive growth"
via the use of what they called a" social opportunity function". The latter was assumed to …

A simple algorithm is proposed which defines the Bonferroni as the product of a row vector
of individual population shares, a linear mathematical operator called the Bonferroni matrix …

We lay out alternative ways of melding measures of absolute and relative deprivation in an
index of overall deprivation, exploring the choices the analyst faces in this enterprise. The …

This paper considers different ways of making comparisons between individuals in terms of
deprivation and/or satisfaction. This allows the Gini index, the Bonferroni index and the De …

The purpose of this paper is to propose a family of inequality measures obtained from the
Bonferroni curve as a distribution function. This family characterizes the income distribution …

The aim of this paper is to measure to which extent income distribution is polarized across
European countries by means of polarization measures based on the Bonferroni and De …

The study of income inequality is important for predicting the wealth of a country. There is an
increasing number of publications where the authors call for the use of several indices …

This paper extends previous work that derived a matricial approach to the definition of the
Bonferroni index. The present study is devoted to the decomposition of a change over time …