The Gini coefficient has already passed the dangerous line of 0.4.

Michael Pritchard Okay. We've got some runoff from a sewage plant farm.

CLIRUN is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet based integrated water balance model developed for climate change impact assessment of river basin runoff.

In light of these realities, we suggest the use of additional indicators (i) poverty (measured by levels of consumption) and (ii) inequality (Gini coefficient).

Kuwait's risk assessment uses low , central , and high values for four input variables (background mortality, population, exposure concentration and concentration response coefficient) to characterize uncertainty.

Under the simple Swiss formula approach, a coefficient would be selected that would in effect set a maximum rate across countries by compressing high rates.

The roofs not only temper urban heat island impact but they save energy, and therefore money, the emissions that cause climate change, and they also reduce stormwater runoff.

In addition, reefs such as those near Salt River Bay in St. Croix depend on mangroves and sea grass colonies along the coast for protection against runoff.61

Do they, perhaps, include green infrastructure, so that we can take runoff and water that's going out of our houses and clean it and filter it and grow urban street trees?

As the Japanese economist Ryuichiro Tachi has pointed out, Japan also benefited from a high savings rate and a low capital coefficient (the ratio of capital to output) of less than 1. Though a precise comparison is difficult, there is no doubt that China s capital coefficient is much higher, implying a larger gap between the growth rate of capital intensity (the total amount of capital needed per dollar of revenue) and that of labor productivity.

Moreover, regardless of who wins the presidential runoff, fears about Ukraine s independence will not, in contrast to 2004 2005, be an issue. This too, is a step forward that should not be underestimated.

The lowest labour price is determined at Republika Srpska level, i.e., at the level of branches and activities, and is multiplied by a coefficient of complexity for the work for every payment group.

And I also think that thinking about processed foods in a new way, where we actually price the negative externalities like petrochemicals and like fertilizer runoff into the price of a bag of chips.

The first one is the Engels coefficient, which explains that the cost of daily necessities has dropped its percentage all through the past decade, in terms of family income, to about 37 some percent.

As evident in this slide from Lake Nabugabo in Uganda, the agricultural runoff from this crop, which goes into these buckets, is the sole source of drinking, cooking and bathing water for this village.

One negative consequence is the persistent deepening of income inequality. The Gini coefficient of per capita income has surpassed 50 (with 100 representing maximal inequality), putting China in the upper quartile of inequality worldwide.

Under the Swiss type approaches, the coefficient would be based on each country's current national average, possibly multiplied by another factor that could be linked either to flexibilities or to credit for past unilateral reforms.

In addition to, I think, doing a beautiful adaptive reuse, they tore up some of the parking spaces, put in bioswales to collect and clean the runoff, put in a lot more sidewalks to connect to the neighborhoods.

The initial work showed that acoustic waves with frequencies of oscillation greater than a critical value predicted from the physical conditions in the solar atmosphere are not significantly reflected by the atmosphere, with less than 2 percent reflection coefficient.

But if you do not look at grasslands but look down into them, you find that most of the soil in that grassland that you've just seen is bare and covered with a crust of algae, leading to increased runoff and evaporation.

Transboundary pollution issues are among the top priority concerns in 20 of the subregions, the most prevalent sources of pollution are agricultural runoff and industrial and municipal discharges, while unsustainable use of freshwater and living resources also score high on the priority list.

(i) To endeavor to develop advanced mine detection technology and equipment (such as non metallic mine detectors and detectors adopting the working principle of infrared thermovision or soil dielectric coefficient), so to improve the efficiency of detecting MOTAPM through various ways and means.

Rice paddies need to be constantly flooded, and, because they are often located on steep slopes, this leads to significant runoff of fertilizers and sediment. Shifting to corn not only reduces water consumption it also cuts the amount of pollution that reaches city residents downstream.

If we use what is called the Gini coefficient to measure this income gap, with 0 indicating perfect equality of income distribution and 1 meaning perfect inequality, the number for China is 0.454 in 2002. This is an internationally recognized level of absolute disparity.

Regarding the treatment of non reciprocal preferences, the Group of African States proposed the incorporation of a correction coefficient in the formula, while the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States has called for the use of a vulnerability index to identify those products eligible for special treatment.

3. Recognizes that mountains provide indications of global climate change through phenomena such as modifications of biological diversity, the retreat of mountain glaciers and changes in seasonal runoff that may impact major sources of freshwater in the world, and stresses the need to undertake actions to minimize the negative effects of these phenomena

By delaying structural reforms, they have allowed their economies to accumulate risks and imbalances that have eroded their long term health. In particular, the BRICS suffer from considerable income inequality, with their average Gini coefficient (where zero signifies absolute equality and one is absolute inequality) ranging from 0.37 to 0.50 in 2010 2013.

Colombia remains a highly unequal society, with the Gini coefficient, a common measure of inequality, hovering around 0.5 in the same range as Brazil and Chile. The problem has many causes, one of which is a poorly functioning labor market that forces many Colombians to accept informal work or no work at all.

The Socialists anointment of Ségolène Royal s as their presidential candidate is an important step on the road to the Fifth Republic s eighth presidential election, which is set for April 22, 2007, with a second round runoff two weeks later. All candidates should be known by the end of January the deadline for printing the ballots.

Consider the Gini coefficient, the most common measure of inequality, which runs from a value of zero for perfect equality to 100 for perfect inequality (one person receives all the income). The average Gini score (not weighted by population) in countries for which there are data declined slightly in the 2000 2010 period, from 39 to 38.

The most reliable data suggest that he was successful at reducing inequality during his rule, Venezuela s Gini coefficient, a 100 point scale measuring income inequality, fell from 50 to 39, the biggest decline in Latin America. Poverty was cut in half from 50 to around 25 of the population, while extreme poverty fell by two thirds.

Alas, none of this has come to pass. Activists continue to mount vocal and tenacious opposition to genetically engineered foods, despite almost 20 years of demonstrated, significant benefits, including reduced use of chemical pesticides (and thus less chemical runoff into waterways), greater use of farming practices that prevent soil erosion, higher profits for farmers, and less fungal contamination.

By that point, Ukraine s springtime of freedom had already deteriorated into a very visible development standstill, owing to a mixture of incompetence and corruption that cried out for change. Regardless of which of the remaining candidates will be elected in the upcoming runoff the incumbent Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko or Viktor Yanukovych the Orange Revolution will have come to an end.

China s income distribution has become highly skewed at 0.438, the Gini coefficient, which measures income inequality, puts the country closer to the United States than to northern Europe s egalitarian societies (with the exception of the United Kingdom). And the unjust allocation of resources, which has enriched so many politically well connected individuals and families, has become more difficult to bear.

By that point, Ukraine s springtime of freedom had already deteriorated into a very visible development standstill, owing to a mixture of incompetence and corruption that cried out for change. Regardless of which of the remaining candidates will be elected in the upcoming runoff the incumbent Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko or Viktor Yanukovich the Orange Revolution will have come to an end.

Consider, for example, that, because GM crops require less chemical pesticide, fewer farmers and their families risk being poisoned by runoff into waterways and ground water. From 1996 to 2009, the amount of pesticide that was sprayed on crops worldwide fell by 393 million kilograms 1.4 times the total amount of pesticide applied annually to crops in the European Union.

No till farming techniques, in which the soil is not plowed, mean less soil erosion, less runoff of agricultural chemicals, and lower fuel consumption and carbon emissions by mechanized farm equipment. From 1996 to 2009, the shift to biotech crops reduced carbon emissions by 17.6 billion kilograms, the equivalent of removing 7.8 million cars from the road for a year.

In fact, the persistence of strong reservations about both Royal and Sarkozy helps explain the surge in popularity for a third candidate, Francois Bayrou, a traditional centrist, pro European politician. Bayrou has never had it so good, but, barring the unlikely collapse of one of the two leading candidates campaigns, he will fail to qualify for the second round runoff.

That has meant greater regional balance as well The coastal provinces, which produce more than 85 of the country s exports, are experiencing the most pronounced slowdown, while inland provinces have maintained relatively high growth rates. As a result, China s Gini coefficient (a 100 point index of inequality, in which zero signifies absolute equality and one absolute inequality) fell to 0.50 in 2012, from 0.52 in 2010.

In the 2002 presidential election, frustration with the system fueled strong support for the extremes, with Jean Marie Le Pen, the leader of the far right, qualifying for the second round runoff. In 2007, by contrast and this constitutes real progress a large segment of the French population is expressing its frustration with the system by being tempted to vote for the extreme center, i.e., Bayrou.

Earlier work by Lustig and her coauthors found that a declining wage premium that is, a drop in the wage gap between workers with high and low education explained part of the decline in the Gini coefficient in Latin American countries. It is not easy to disentangle the role of supply and demand factors in the reduction of the wage premium, but both seem to have played a role.

The types of securities that can be lent to the customer by the securities firm and can be bought with the funds lent to the customer by the securities firm, the types and coefficient of the securities that can be used as deposit, the time limit for securities lending and borrowing, the minimum guarantee maintenance ratio and the time limit for making up the difference shall be determined by the stock exchange.

America s 20 wealthiest people now own more wealth than the bottom half of the entire population The wealth gap between America s high income group and everyone else has never been more extreme rich households account for more than one in five of the entire US population. Strikingly, one hour north of Wall Street, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the Gini coefficient a standard measurement of income distribution and inequality is worse than in Zimbabwe.

The decision to allow opposition leader Alexei Navalny to stand in Moscow s recent mayoral election was a welcome move toward a more open system, but the political calculation behind it and the likelihood of vote rigging to prevent a runoff against his victorious opponent hardly suggest a Pauline conversion to democracy. The Putin regime occupies a space between dictatorship and democracy for which Western political science has yet to find a proper word.