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Putting aside the big issues with using the Gini coefficient as a measure of income inequality (very different distributions can have similar Gini coefficients)
by whakim 5y ago
Putting aside the big issues with using the Gini coefficient as a measure of income inequality (very different distributions can have similar Gini coefficients) - and the even bigger issue of ignoring wealth altogether - the World Bank data relies on household surveys which are notoriously unreliable even in Western countries. Those numbers ought to be taken with a big heaping of salt.