DEFINITION of 'Gini Index'. A measurement of the income distribution of a country's residents. This number, which ranges between 0 and 1 and is based on residents' net income, helps define the gap between the rich and the poor, with 0 representing perfect equality and 1 representing perfect inequality. wealthy country and a poor country can have the same Gini coefficient, even if the wealthy country has a relatively equal distribution of affluent residents and the poor country has a relatively equal distribution of cash-strapped residents.
Yes he did. In the miniseries (Temptations) on TV. They showed he was trying to take the ribs out of the oven of his mothers kitchen. In reality, he died in hospital after battling diabetes and other related diseases. 12 people found this useful.
(CNN) -- Johnny Carson, host of NBC's The Tonight Show for nearly 30 years, died Sunday of emphysema. He passed away this morning, Carson's nephew, Jeffrey Sotzing, told CNN. Carson, a longtime smoker, was 79 and had announced in 2002 that he was suffering from the disease.