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The first one is the Engels coefficient, which explains that the cost of daily necessities has dropped its percentage all through the past decade, in terms of family income, to about 37-some percent.
The Gini coefficient has already passed the dangerous line of 0.4.
And then it also has the lowest drag coefficient of any car of its size.
The rest of the car has to be very light to offset the mass of the pack, and then you have to have a low drag coefficient so that you have good highway range.
These two countries, completely different political models and completely different economic models, and yet they have the same income inequality number measured as a Gini coefficient.
India, long known for gross disparities between rich and poor, has a Gini coefficient that has hovered around 0.30 to 0.32 over the past five decades.
We decided to use the Gini coefficient, a common measure of income inequality, to measure inequality in carbon emissions.
The lowest-possible Gini coefficient is 0, which indicates that everyone has exactly the same income; the highest-possible coefficient is 1, which indicates that a single person has all of the income and no one else has any.
By using the 1850-2050 timespan to calculate the carbon Gini coefficient, we can analyze the principle of historical accountability, advocated by countries like China, India, and Brazil, which takes into account past emissions that have had an impact on the atmosphere.
It thus leads to a carbon Gini coefficient of 0.The first approach – equal per capita emission rights from now on – results in a carbon Gini coefficient of about 0.4.
The prevailing approach – the grandfathering principle – leads to the largest carbon Gini coefficient, roughly 0.7.
When the de facto grandfathering principle is included, our carbon Gini coefficient indicates that as much as 70% of the global carbon budget is still in dispute between rich and poor countries.
For example, we can compare the grandfathering principle’s carbon Gini coefficient of 0.7 with the Gini coefficient of the US, which most people regard as highly inegalitarian, and yet is much lower, at about 0.38.
On the other hand, equal per capita annual emissions is based on a principle that at least has a claim to be considered fair, and has a Gini coefficient of less than 0.4.
We therefore propose that any fair solution should have a carbon Gini coefficient of 0.0-0.4.
And the worldwide Gini coefficient of inter-country inequality fell from 0.653 to 0.556 from 1980 to 2007, owing largely to the astounding performance of the emerging countries, particularly China and India.
Whereas a Gini coefficient of 1.0 means that a single person controls 100% of a country’s income/wealth, North Korea scores 0.86, the rather unequal United States scores 0.41, and Bitcoin scores an astonishing 0.88.
The country’s Gini coefficient is one of the worst in the world, reflecting stark levels of income inequality; its rate of unemployment, at 26.5%, is alarmingly high and hits young people the hardest; and too many people are stuck in disastrous poverty cycles.
Each country’s Gini coefficient – the most commonly used measure of income equality – is roughly 0.47.
Over the past 50 years, as countries such as China and India posted double-digit economic growth, the global Gini coefficient dropped from 0.65 to 0.55.
According to China Household Financial Survey data, China’s Gini coefficient – the most common measure of inequality – climbed from 0.283 in 1983 to 0.491 in 2008, reaching highs of 0.61 in 2010 and 0.60 in 2012 (much higher than the official figures of 0.481 and 0.474, respectively).
Though the Gini coefficient dropped to 0.465 by 2016, that still exceeds the 0.24-0.36
In 1988 and 1995, China’s Gini coefficient of household wealth was just 0.34 and 0.4, respectively.
But the coefficient has grown, peaking at 0.739 in 2010.
The Gini coefficient, a widely-used measure of inequality, shows no sign of falling and remains one of the highest in the world.
And it improved the 100-point Gini coefficient of income inequality by a full five points.
It is striking that, when asked which country in Asia is the most unequal according to the Gini coefficient (the most commonly used measure of income inequality), students at Chulalongkorn University’s Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration in Thailand identified India, Vietnam, and Pakistan.
Singaporean diplomat Tommy Koh has argued that his country’s relatively high Gini coefficient – the 29th highest in the world – does not tell the full story.
Whether or not one agrees, there is far more to a country, region, or market than its Gini coefficient.
As the Japanese economist Ryuichiro Tachi has pointed out, Japan also benefited from a high savings rate and a low capital coefficient (the ratio of capital to output) of less than 1.
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