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An urge to show progress must neither use faulty comparisons nor gloss over realities. But a recent press release citing ...

The government’s assertions conceal a broader reality of increasing income inequality and widespread economic hardship. These ...

Over a century after Pareto’s observation, the Global South remains trapped in a cycle of concentrated wealth and entrenched ...

Figures like these are increasingly symbolic, rather than substantive,” CFA notes, pointing to a broader erosion of ...

Is the Gini coefficient still a relevant measure of inequality in South Africa? This article explores its limitations and advocates for the continued use of robust statistical measures in policy-makin ...

Referring to a World Bank brief, the government has claimed India is world’s ‘fourth most equal country’. What does this ...

The Gini coefficient is a statistical measure (between 0 and 1) that quantifies how much a dataset deviates from perfect equality. Zero represents absolute equality; one represents absolute ...

According to the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) 2022-23, inequality in consumption did decline ...

Matlab function that calculates the Gini coefficient A simple function to measure the statistical dispersion of a distribution. This statistic is commonly used to assess inequality in income or wealth ...

Arkansas ranked eighth out of 50 states for income inequality, with the top 5% of the population holding a 23.37% share of ...