3.1 - Ginius Maths Flashcards
Quality Of Life
Not easy to measure.
Use comparable measures of economic activity.
Indicators Of Development
Single (GDP) or composite (HDI)
Environmental, economic or social.
There can be wide variation within a population.
Is GDP Any Good?
GDP may be based on poorly gathered data.
‘Black Economy’
Non-declaration of higher income earners.
Economic Growth Representations
Economic growth isn’t always distributed accurately, it doesn’t always reflect the true quality of life.
The Gini Co-Efficient
A measure of the degree of inequality in a society, it gives a nice neat number to measure income inequality within a country, which can be used to compare between countries and across time, it’s based on a ratio of areas from the Lorenz curve.