In 2013, Cobham and Sumner proposed an alternative to the Gini coefficient: the Palma ratio. They named it after José Gabriel Palma, a Chilean economist. Palma noticed that in most countries ...

The countries with the highest Gini ratios often also have the most political turmoil. For those of us in the West who are accustomed to a broad-based middle class, travel to such countries can ...

In 2013, Cobham and Sumner proposed an alternative to the Gini co-efficient: the Palma ratio. They named it after José Gabriel Palma, a Chilean economist. Palma noticed that in most countries ...

This index (also known as the Gini coefficient, Gini ratio, or Gini score) essentially measures the difference between actual income distribution and a perfectly equitable distribution in which ...

The Gini index determines a nation's level of income inequality by measuring the income distribution or wealth distribution across its population. The Gini index was developed in 1912 by Italian ...

The difference between this hypothetical line and the actual line produced of people's incomes is the Gini ratio. In 2012-13, the UK's Gini score for income inequality was 0.332, as measured by ...

One measure the Census Bureau computes to assess income inequality is the Gini index. This measures household income inequality using a scale of 0 to 1, where higher numbers represent greater ...

In the chart below, we've presented the Gini ratios (or coefficients) for U.S. households, families and individuals that have been calculated using the U.S. Census Bureau's collected data on the ...

TEMPO/Lani Diana "The figure decreased by 0.005 points compared to the Gini ratio in March 2018, which was 0.389 points," BPS chief Suhariyanto said in Jakarta, Tuesday, January 15. On a year-on-year ...

In line with the reduced poverty rate, the Gini ratio improved slightly to 0.384 as of September 2018, down from 0.389 in March and 0.391 in September 2017. Similar to the poverty rate ...