Muhammad Yunus氏著の本、題名 "Creating a World Without Poverty" が気になり、読むことにしました。
Prologueの冒頭に "Because the microcredit organization I founded, Grameen Bank, has successfully brought financial services to poor women in Bangladesh, i am often invited to speak with groups that are interested in improving the lot of women." とあり、その中に出て来た "microcredit" は以前ニュースで聞いたことを思い出しました。著者のMuhammad Yunus氏はノーベル平和賞を受賞した経済学者とWikipediaに書かれていました。
But all of this progress Gini coefficient has brought with it a worsening of social problems. In their rush to grow, Chinese officials have looked the other way when companies polluted the water and air. And despite the improved lot of many poor, the divide between the haves and have-nots is widening. As measured by technical indicators such as the Gini coefficient, income inequality is worse in China than in India.
早速とりあげる表現、"Gini coefficient" は経済用語の様です。
・Wiktionary: A measure of the inequality of a statistical distribution, ranging from 0 (total equality) to 1 (maximal inequality), used in various disciplines but especially in economics to compare incomes or wealth.
百科事典（Wikipedia）の説明も見ます。 冒頭個所を引用します。
In economics, the Gini coefficient, also known as the Gini index or Gini ratio, is a measure of statistical dispersion intended to represent the income inequality, the wealth inequality, or the consumption inequality within a nation or a social group. It was developed by Italian statistician and sociologist Corrado Gini.
Prologueの冒頭に "Because the microcredit organization I founded, Grameen Bank, has successfully brought financial services to poor women in Bangladesh, i am often invited to speak with groups that are interested in improving the lot of women." とあり、その中に出て来た "microcredit" は以前ニュースで聞いたことを思い出しました。著者のMuhammad Yunus氏はノーベル平和賞を受賞した経済学者とWikipediaに書かれていました。
But all of this progress Gini coefficient has brought with it a worsening of social problems. In their rush to grow, Chinese officials have looked the other way when companies polluted the water and air. And despite the improved lot of many poor, the divide between the haves and have-nots is widening. As measured by technical indicators such as the Gini coefficient, income inequality is worse in China than in India.
早速とりあげる表現、"Gini coefficient" は経済用語の様です。
・Wiktionary: A measure of the inequality of a statistical distribution, ranging from 0 (total equality) to 1 (maximal inequality), used in various disciplines but especially in economics to compare incomes or wealth.
百科事典（Wikipedia）の説明も見ます。 冒頭個所を引用します。
In economics, the Gini coefficient, also known as the Gini index or Gini ratio, is a measure of statistical dispersion intended to represent the income inequality, the wealth inequality, or the consumption inequality within a nation or a social group. It was developed by Italian statistician and sociologist Corrado Gini.
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