Microeconomics 1st Edition by Dean Karlan,Jonathan Morduch

Exercise 4

Look at the various measures of poverty in 2009 for several countries in Table 21P-3. (The data are provided by the World Bank.)
a. Rank the countries from the country with the highest inequality to the lowest using

the Gini coefficient. (Higher Gini coefficients represent higher inequality.)
b. Rank the countries from the country with the highest inequality to the lowest using the ratio of the top decile to the bottom decile.c. Rank the countries from the country with the highest inequality to the lowest inequality using the share of total income held by the top 10 percent.