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...define income equality? RW: There are many measures. We compared the gap between the richest and poorest 20% of households in each society. You can use more sophisticated indicators like the gini index, but they produce broadly the same answers...
...study quantified income inequality using a statistical constant, the “Gini coefficient.” When the coefficient is 0, income is distributed equally across the population. As inequality increases, the coefficient approaches...
...Achilles' heel of the regime, as violent riots last year and in recent months have clearly demonstrated. Crime and corruption remain serious problems, while cities struggle to provide basic services to the huge "floating population" of 100 million or so migrants. Income disparities (as measured by the Gini coefficient) are now approaching the highest in the world. China has again become a stratified society - just what Mao sought to eliminate. Still, given the unprecedented scale and nature of China's socioeconomic change over the past 30 years, the country's relative stability is commendable...
Although Tucson residents are instructed to conserve water every summer, the city approves more subdivisions and vacation resorts with the obligatory water parks and golf courses. Gini Brydle, TUCSON, ARIZ...
...term paper. Thomas-Graham’s business background—she earned an MBA from Harvard and worked on Wall Street before joining CNBC—heavily influences her writing, and not always positively. In Orange Crushed, she indulges in digressions on the relative merits of the Gini coefficient as a measure of inequality and the application of the Herfindahl index to emerging Eastern European economies. At some point, readers will likely need to consult their Ec 10 notes to keep pace with the characters’ academic repartee...