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M’sia behind regional peers in addressing inequality, says Rafizi
The economy minister says while most Malaysians enjoy better education and healthcare than previous generations, relative ...
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Measuring Inequality: Forget Gini, Go With the Palma Ratio Instead
So we need to pick the best metric possible. For years, the number used to measure inequality has been the Gini coefficient. It’s not hard to see why, given its alluring simplicity: 0 denotes ...
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Spatio-temporal differentiation and influencing factors of high-quality development of agriculture and rural areas in China
Based on data at the provincial level, this study used the entropy method, Dagum Gini coefficient decomposition, and spatial Markov chain to estimate the spatio-temporal differentiation of ...
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Income Classification 2025, Is It Still B40, M40, T20?
Malaysia’s Gini coefficient (a measurement used to represent income inequality – a higher number means that the income gap is larger) fell from 0.513 to 0.399. This means that in the past few ...
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Measuring inequality beyond the Gini coefficient may clarify conflicting findings - Jon M. Jachimowicz and Oliver Hauser
These contradicting findings may in part stem from a predominant focus on the Gini coefficient, which only narrowly captures inequality. Here, we conceptualize the measurement of inequality as a data ...
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Poverty in Indonesia
Widening Inequality in Indonesia? The Gini ratio (or coefficient), which measures income distribution inequality, is an important indicator to assess the degree of 'righteousness' in a country ...