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The inefficiency of the Gini coefficient

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To simplify complex inequality into a single statistic doesn’t address how to accurately assess (or reduce) South Africa’s large wealth divide
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SA’s middle class closing in on the rich

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The gap between the poor and middle class is widening, but according to the World Bank, inequality between the rich and middle class is narrowing.
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No, minister. Increasing VAT was avoidable

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Instead of hitting low earners hard, the budget should have raised wealth and corporate taxes
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Free education demands radical change to the budget

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'Lastly, economics makes the difference between wealth creation and wealth inheritance.'
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Figures suggest SA has the highest concentration of wealth in the hands of a few

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For the first time, tax data has been made available to try to assess just how much is owned by how many
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We’ve bastardised blessed with a #

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Forget the God of Galatians 5. Another lord who rules the temples of wealth will grant all your wishes, particularly if you are among the 1%.
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QE has made the very rich even richer

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Credit Suisse's Global Wealth Report makes for interesting reading for those who suspect quantitative easing is more about propping up asset prices.
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1% own half the world’s wealth

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Research by Credit Suisse shows that the world's poor and middle classes have been squeezed to create more wealth for 1% of the population.
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Inequality mocks SA’s freedom

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Oxfam's latest report highlights the travesty of inequality and warns of dire and corrosive consequences to society.
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More millionaires, but world’s wealth gap is growing

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Inequality fell slightly just before the financial crisis of 2008 but is on the rise again, particularly in developing countries such as South Africa.
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JSE chiefs’ pay hikes soar well above the tide of inflation

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A report has shown that top executives at JSE-listed firms got salary increases well above inflation plus other perks last year.
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The rich get richer, and ‘hog the proceeds of growth’

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More than 1.76-million people joined the ranks of the global super-rich last year as stock market gains and property prices swelled personal fortunes.
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From Dainfern to Diepsloot: A short trip across SA’s wealth gap

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The gap between the haves and have-nots is on the minds of low-income earning South Africans as they take to the polls.
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Move with the times and you’ll defeat inequality

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Technology has exacerbated inequality. But we should prepare ourselves for an increasingly tech-driven world, an act that could eradicate the problem.
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The 85 richest people in the world are still mostly men

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Women need only seven seats, mostly on the bottom deck, on the £1-trillion double-decker bus revealed by Oxfam this week.
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