Economic inequality and its impact on human development: Insight of Banten Province 2011-2015

Abstract

Development is a strategy to improve the welfare and quality of life. UNDP concept explained that economic and human development has interrelated relation. Meanwhile, economic development in a region often face inequality and may cause another impact to disparity on human development. This study has the objective to measure and explain the inequality on economic development and understanding its spatial-temporal correlation with human development by the time 2011-2015. The methods that use in this study are Williamson Index (WI), Location Quotient (LQ), Klassen Typology, and Pearson Correlation. The result shows there is inequality on economic development with WI 0.95 in 2011 and decreased in 2015 with WI 0.77. Inequality on economic development influenced by the different economic structure within regencies/municipals. In the context of temporal and spatial data, economic development has a strong correlation with human development in province level and regency level. The government should improve economics, health, and education infrastructure in allregion as an attempt to realize the equality and sustainability development in Banten Province.