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Is inequality all about the tails?: The Palma measure of income inequality
Author(s) -
Cobham Alex,
Sumner Andy
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2014.00718.x
Subject(s) - inequality , measure (data warehouse) , economic inequality , economics , econometrics , demographic economics , mathematical economics , mathematics , computer science , mathematical analysis , data mining
The rich are different from us; so are the very poor. But in most countries most of us are in the middle. That leads to problems when you try to measure inequality. Alex Cobham and Andy Sumner have come up with a better way to show that some countries are more equal than others.