30 September 2013

Global Inequality ~ Worldmap of Palma Ratios...

Max Fisher in the WashPo's WorldViews shares maps of How the world’s countries compare on income inequality using the Palma ratio, which is...
"much more elegant than the Gini coefficient and better suited at comparing the rich and the poor. The Palma simply compares the richest 10 percent of people with the poorest 40 percent."

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