The Evolution of Well-Being in Spain (1980–2001): A Regional Analysis |
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Authors: | Andrés J Marchante Bienvenido Ortega José Sánchez |
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Affiliation: | (1) Departamento de Economía Aplicada (Estructura Económica), Universidad de Málaga, Campus el Ejido, E-29071 Málaga, Spain |
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Abstract: | Evaluations of regional welfare conventionally rely on Gross Value Added (GVA) per capita as an indicator of well-being. This
paper attempts to re-address the regional welfare issue using alternative indicators to per capita income. With this aim,
a database for the Spanish regions (NUTS II) has been constructed for the period 1980–2001 and an augmented version of the
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Index (HDI) has been estimated incorporating indicators of health,
education and per capita income. The results show that, whereas regional income per capita disparities have remained constant,
regional convergence in the Augmented Human Development Index (AHDI) was achieved between 1980 and 2001. None the less, there
is no evidence of intra-distributional mobility (leap-frogging) across regions in the AHDI |
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