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Multiple Equality Indexes Related to the Wealth Gap

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The authors believe that not only wealth equality, but also legal, socio-cultural and financial equality is of vital importance that could affect social equality; thus this chapter focuses on these aforementioned three aspects, and proposes a measurement system for the three equality indexes.

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Zhu, X., Lin, S. (2019). Multiple Equality Indexes Related to the Wealth Gap. In: Equity Index Construction and Research on Wealth Gap. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9554-3_4

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