In any capitalist economy, some level of income inequality is to be expected — but when the gap between the rich and the poor ...

A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, ...

More so than perhaps every other wealthy, highly developed country, the United States stands out on the world stage for its ...

We recently compiled a report on the 30 Countries with Highest Gini Coefficient and in this article we will look at the country with the highest wealth inequality. According to the World ...

The Gini index, or Gini coefficient, is a summary measure of income inequality representing how income distribution varies compared with an equal outcome. States with the lowest Gini index figures ...

The Gini coefficient is an index of inequality widely used in the social sciences. If all income were to go to one person, the Gini coefficient would be 1. If everybody had the same income, the Gini ...

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 ...

The after-tax Gini coefficient, a statistical measure used to represent income inequality has increased from a three year average of 0.34 in 2005-07 to 0.37 in 2017-19, the report found.

When the last of the volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius settled over Pompeii in A.D. 79, it preserved a detailed portrait of life in the grand Roman city, from bristling military outposts to ...

The Gini coefficient is an index of inequality widely used in the social sciences. If all income were to go to one person, the Gini coefficient would be 1. If everybody had the same income, the Gini ...