[lbo-talk] Poverty and riches in Putin's Russia

[Doug Henwood]

On Oct 22, 2006, at 8:16 AM, Andy F wrote:


> Without getting into how they get and crunch the data this
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_index>
>
> suggests that it's less than in the States, on the high end of Europe,
> on par with Canada.

These look to be cobbled together from inconsistent sources. The  
Luxembourg Income Study <http://www.lisproject.org/keyfigures/ 
ineqtable.htm> is the best source of internationally comparable data.  
Sweden is at the low end of inequality, the U.S. toward the high end,  
exceeded by Russia & Mexico.

Doug