[lbo-talk] India 8th in billionaire club

[C. G. Estabrook]

These are Gini coefficients for income, not wealth, right? How different
would the latter be? --CGE

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Here's what the World Bank has for some interesting countries (all 
> figs from between 1998 and 2001):
> 
> Argentina        0.522
> Brazil           0.585
> Chile            0.571
> China            0.447
> Germany          0.283
> India            0.343
> Russia           0.456
> Sweden           0.250
> United Kingdom   0.360
> United States    0.408
> 
> By the way, the champs in the WB database are:
> 
> Namibia          0.706
> Lesotho          0.632
> Botwswana        0.630
> Cent Afr Rep     0.613
> Swaziland        0.609
> South Africa     0.593
> Brazil           0.585
> 
> Poor Brazil, a mere #7.
> 
> Doug