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.
Julius Nyerere died on October 14, 1999 at St. Thomas's Hospital in London. Nyerere was battling chronic leukemia for over a year. On October 1st, Nyerere, was in intensive care due to a major stroke. At 10:30 a.m.on October 14th with his wife, Maria, and six of his eight children by his bedside, Julius Nyerere had passed away. Current Tanzanian President, Benjamin Mkapa, went on national television, with his voice full of emotion announced the man that most knew as, Mwalimu (teacher) had died.