A new way of measuring wealth inequality better accounts for the way we experience it. In a paper published in Economics Letters, economists Samuel Bowles of the Santa Fe Institute and Wendy Carlin of ...

This paper presents a toolkit for measuring and analyzing inter-individual inequality in length of life by Gini coefficient. Gini coefficient and four other inequality measures are defined on the ...

After declaring that India has almost eliminated extreme poverty, the government’s Press Information Bureau (PIB) has picked up another set of estimates from the World Bank. This PIB release last week ...