China's officla GINI was.458 as of 2000
time to revise the tables!
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200108/31/eng20010831_78962.html
jonathan
At 06:07 PM 1/11/2004, you wrote:
>Alexandre Fenelon wrote:
>
>>-On inequality data, I would like to disagree with you. While Taiwan is less
>>unequal than the USA (Ginni 32), SK is only marginally better (Ginni=36) and
>>Malaysia is almost as unequal as Latin America (Ginni=48). I will check data
>>for Thailand.
>
>Hmm, where'd you get these numbers? Here's what I have for 1993 from
>Branko Milanovic at the World Bank. The figures are pretty old, but
>generally these things don't change too much over a decade.
>
>Brazil 59.0
>Malaysia 46.3
>Thailand 45.6
>USA 39.4
>Korea 31.0
>Taiwan 29.3
>China (urban) 27.1
>Japan 24.3
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