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Characteristics and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region

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Johansen explores salient commonalities and distinctions of regions and countries in the Asia-Pacific region, notably legal and political systems, cultural values, historical events, and populations. After briefly discussing current global measures of inequality, such as the Human Development Index, the GINI coefficient, and the Gender Gap Index, as well as country demographics, inequality measures for the Asia-Pacific regions and countries featured in this book are presented.

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    According to the United States Census Bureau (2018), Hawai‘i’s GINI coefficient is 0.44.

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    The Measure of America Study by the Social Science Research Council (2014) reports an HDI for each state in the United States. The report gives Hawai‘i an HDI of 5.53, compared to the United States as a whole at 5.03 from the same report.

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Johansen, M. (2019). Characteristics and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region. In: Johansen, M. (eds) Social Equity in the Asia-Pacific Region. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15919-1_3

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