So we need to pick the best metric possible. For years, the number used to measure inequality has been the Gini coefficient. It’s not hard to see why, given its alluring simplicity: 0 denotes ...
Yeah Kim Leng says income insecurity is a significant concern for a large segment of people, especially due to wage ...
By Sanjay Roy The National Statistical Office has recently released the fact sheet of Household Consumption Expenditure ...
In 2022, the year a new administration took over, the World Bank (WB) came out with an important report on the Philippines. While there had been important gains in poverty reduction, WB had said ...
Assistant Treasurer Andrew Leigh has only diminished his own stature in a misguided attempt to explain society’s inequality using a “wealth parade” of discontent. The danger is that rather than ...
As Belarus votes amid repression, what drives Alexander Lukashenko, the president likely to secure a seventh term.
Madelein van der Walt, partner, Nasrin Kharsany, senior knowledge lawyer and Serena Kalbskopf, senior knowledge Lawyer at Webber Wentzel, explain that the Companies Amendment Act aims to enhance ...
This is excluding the values of items received free of cost through various social welfare programmes, Consumption inequality, measured in terms of the Gini Coefficient, declined in both rural and ...
The beauty, might and ambition of the Constitution remain perhaps most evident in its Preamble. So, how have we fared on the ...