Michael Lokshin

That validation point matters here, because multidimensional inequality in Uzbekistan is not just proposing a dashboard, it's applying one to real household survey data from 2021 to 2024.

The authors, Michael Lokshin, James Foster, O. Kakimov, and Bakhtiar Ismailov, build a multidimensional inequality index, which just means one measure that tracks inequality across several parts of life at once, not income alone.

They used three dimensions tied to Uzbekistan's national priorities.

And the surprising finding is that inequality rose mostly because those dimensions started clustering together differently, not because each dimension became more unequal by itself.