THE rubric of robust statistical measures is essential for evaluating policies and plans within the context of democratic governance. A RECENT Sunday Independent article questions the relevance of the ...

Traditional inequality measures fail to capture the geographical distribution of income. The failure to consider such distribution implies that, holding income constant, different spatial patterns ...

Ask just about anyone in South Africa about the Gini coefficient and they will either stare at you blankly or tell you only two things: one, the Gini coefficient is the measure of income inequality in ...

Fifty years ago, Corrado Gini, inventor of the Gini coefficient, which measures income inequality, died. How does it work, asks Chris Stokel-Walker. When Italian statistician - and former fascist - ...

China has published the calculation methods of the Gini coefficient reflecting social wealth gap, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Friday. A new survey system was set up at the end ...

Peter Whiteford has received funding from the Australian Research Council and from the European Commission for work on inequality. He is affiliated with the Centre for Policy Development. Is ...

BEIJING (Caixin Online) — For the eleventh year in a row, Chinese officials say they cannot publish the nation’s Gini coefficient — a common measure of income inequality used worldwide. The main ...

With wealth inequality one of the most pressing issues facing China, the public has been clamoring for accurate figures outlining the extent of the problem. On the 18th of January this wish was ...

“LET some people get rich first,” was the famous instruction of Deng Xiaoping, as China struggled to throw off the shackles of Maoist egalitarianism. Yet the widening gap between rich and poor, and ...