What is the Gini coefficient, and what is it used for? And how does Singapore work out its Gini coefficient? If you've ever struggled to understand this concept, CNA's Grace Yeoh breaks it down for ...

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 ...

President Obama will make economic inequality a central theme of his State of the Union address on Tuesday, according to reports, highlighting the issue's emergence as a key political issue. Less ...

Blesch, Kristin, Oliver P. Hauser, and Jon M. Jachimowicz. "Measuring Inequality beyond the Gini Coefficient May Clarify Conflicting Findings." Nature Human Behaviour 6, no. 11 (November 2022): ...

Commentators who like to give national government and the ruling party the benefit of the doubt point out that South Africa’s Gini Coefficient has declined since the ANC came into office in 1994. The ...

Most of us would agree that poverty is a bad thing, at least in the abstract and general sense of the word. One definition of poverty is ‘the state of being extremely poor, of being inferior in ...

Researchers propose a novel twist on the widely used Gini coefficient -- a workhorse statistical measure for gauging the gap between haves and have-nots. A new way of measuring wealth inequality ...