Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently … extent to which estimates of Gini coefficients from the WIID Companion are consistent with and add to the prevailing … understanding of inequality in Ghana. To this end, we review the primary source of data for the three main Gini series on Ghana …

witnessing a decline of inequality as measured by the Gini index, even if once accounted for the fact that inequality increased …

properties such a measure (or index) should contain. The Gini index is, of course, the most popular. There is a concurrent … Gini) that poorly detect the extreme values present in the underlying empirical IDF. This paper introduces a new inequality … measure to supplement, but not to replace, the Gini that measures more accurately the inherent asymmetries and extreme values …