Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B (1960-2002), Vol. 57, No. 3 (Dec., 1995), pp. 428-432 (5 pages) The area between the Lorenz curve of income and the concentration curve of ...
Over the past 30 years income has become less equally distributed among the nation’s households. One widely used measure of inequality, the Gini index, ranges between 0 and 1, with 0 denoting complete ...
The most widely used measure for studying social, economic, and health inequality is the Gini index/ratio. Whereas other measures of inequality possess certain useful characteristics, such as the ...