Japan’s income inequality hit its second-worst level on record, according to a labor ministry survey conducted in 2021. The Gini coefficient--an index that measures income inequality on a scale ...

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With reformers relentlessly demanding that schools produce measurable outcomes, it’s curious that the Gini Index is rarely mentioned. I say that because what Italian statistician Corrado Gini wrote in ...

SIX years ago, as a postgraduate researcher at Henley Business School - part of the University of Reading in the United Kingdom - Filipe Morais believed he had hit on a capital idea to promote income ...

So, any city that has a higher Gini coefficient than that is suffering from worse income inequality than the U.S. as a whole. The table below provides a full breakdown of the 101 cities, with their ...

China's first release of a rich-poor index for the past decade paints a far-from-rosy picture of what the country needs to do to bridge the wealth gap and make more people included in its magnificent ...

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia’s Gini Coefficient Index, which measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of income in a certain country, is “still high” compared with other countries in the region, ...

India is now a leading nation in income equality. World Bank data shows India's Gini Index is better than many major economies. Poverty rates have significantly decreased between 2011 and 2023.

While authorities reluctantly prepare to cough up formerly hidden data on air quality, Caixin reports on other figures the government has preferred to keep to itself. China’s Gini coefficient, a key ...