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The European Union at 50
Table 10.3: Social cohesion in the EU-25, in Latin America and the
Caribbean, and in the MEDA partner countries of the European Union
criterion Which Latin American and Caribbean
countries outperform worst performing EU
nation?
human
development
index
inequality
between richest
20 % and
poorest 20 %
life expectancy
at birth
probability at
birth of
surviving to age
65, female
probability at
birth of
surviving to age
65, male
ratio of
estimated
female to male
earned income
real income of
the poorest 20
% in purchasing
power parities
gender
development
index
gender
empowerment
measure
Barbados, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Costa
Rica
Which Arab MEDA
EU-partner
countries
outperform worst
performing EU
nation?
Jamaica Egypt, Jordan,
Algeria, Morocco,
Tunisia
Costa Rica, Chile, Cuba, Dominica, Uruguay,
Mexico, Barbados, Panama, Argentina,
Ecuador, Antigua and Barbuda, Venezuela,
Colombia, Saint Lucia, Belize
Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Uruguay, Panama,
Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador
Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Panama, Mexico,
Barbados, Uruguay, Ecuador, Argentina,
Venezuela, Belize, Saint Lucia, Paraguay,
Colombia, Saint Vincent, Peru, Jamaica, El
Salvador, Nicaragua, Trinidad & Tobago,
Honduras, Suriname, Brazil, Bahamas,
Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Guatemala
Jamaica, Bahamas, Barbados, Uruguay,
Panama, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago,
Nicaragua, Bolivia, El Salvador, Brazil,
Venezuela, Guyana, Chile, Mexico,
Honduras, Costa Rica, Argentina, Dominican
Libya, Tunisia,
Syria, Lebanon
Tunisia, Syria,
Libya
Syria, Tunisia,
Algeria, Lebanon,
Jordan, Morocco,
Egypt
worst EU-25
nation
value for value for the
worst EU-25 US
nation
Latvia 0, 836 0, 944
Portugal 8 8, 4
Latvia 71, 6 77, 4
Latvia 81, 9 86, 7
Estonia 57, 2 79, 1
Morocco, Tunisia Austria 0, 35 0, 62
Republic
none Latvia 3749 10142
Barbados, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay Latvia 0, 834 0, 942
Bahamas, Costa Rica, Argentina, Trinidad
and Tobago, Barbados, Mexico, Panama,
Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Peru, Uruguay,
Colombia, Ecuador
Malta 0, 486 0, 793
Pretty much the sample results emerge from a systematic comparison of the
data contained in the University of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP) 3 . The
time series correlations for the years 1980 – 99 from the data base about the
Theil Index of Inequality, 1963 – 99 show that in the majority of the countries of
the European Union there was a sharp increase in inequality rates from the
1980s onwards. The UTIP data collections contain, among others, two very
important data series for the study of international economic inequalities. UTIP-
UNIDO is a global data set that calculates the industrial pay-inequality measures
for 156 countries from 1963-1999. It has a total of 3194 observations based on
the UNIDO Industrial Statistics. The EHII data base from the UTIP project
(Estimated Household Income Inequality Data Set (EHII)) - is a global dataset,
derived from the econometric relationship between UTIP-UNIDO, other
conditioning variables, and the World Bank's Deininger & Squire data set. The
3 http://utip.gov.utexas.edu/
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