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.
Ruffin and Kendricks also joined Hall and Oates at the Live Aid concert in Philadelphia. In 1989, Ruffin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with five other Temptations. Just two years later, David Ruffin, at 50 years of age, would collapse in a Philadelphia crack house. Hours later he was dropped off in front of a hospital, where he died of a drug overdose.