China Lets Gini Out of the Bottle
China has not made its Gini coefficient public since 2000. The Gini coefficient is a measure of income inequality, ranging from 0, or perfect equality, to 1, or perfect inequality. A figure above 0.4 is widely believed to indicate potentially destabilising inequality. A recent survey suggested that ...
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That should probably read “an unnerving 0.61″ to be consistent with the source cited (it must be less than 1, since 1 is perfect inequality).
Gah. Typo. Thanks!