ECONOMISTS, trying hard to dispel a stubborn reputation as a gloomy bunch, have become fascinated with the relationships between wealth, inequality and happiness. There is evidence, at both an ...

According to a Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) 2014 report, the definition of “income” for Gini index reporting purposes excludes earnings from the informal sector, which is a major ...

The normalised Gini coefficient (unlike the traditional Gini coefficient) takes into account negative values in a distribution. The Gini coefficient is a value between between 0 and 1. A value of 0 ...

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 ...

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 ...