Some more equal than others

　　收入平等性的差異

　　Oct 1st 2008

　　From Economist.com

　　Income inequality around the world

　　世界的收入不平等問題

　　NOT everyone agrees that income inequality is a problem to be solved. America and Britain are reckoned to have among the greatest inequality, among rich countries, as measured by the Gini coefficient. Such inequality may be associated with certain problems, for example a study produced last year by Unicef, the UN children’s agency, suggested that the two countries have particularly low levels of child wellbeing. For many ordinary Americans and Britons, however, social mobility and getting opportunities to prosper may be more important. Nordic countries, which are the most equal, regularly do well in happiness surveys. The highest levels of inequality are in poor countries, especially in South America and Africa.

　　并非所有人都認(rèn)為收入不平等是一個(gè)需要解決的問題。按基尼系數(shù)計(jì)算，美英兩國(guó)都位于富裕國(guó)家里收入差距最大的幾個(gè)國(guó)家之列。收入不平等或許總伴有某些特定問題，比如聯(lián)合國(guó)兒童基金會(huì)去年發(fā)布的一份研究報(bào)告就指出，美英兩國(guó)的兒童福利水平很低。不過，對(duì)許多普通美國(guó)人和英國(guó)人來說，社會(huì)流動(dòng)性和獲得飛黃騰達(dá)的機(jī)會(huì)或許更為重要。在社會(huì)幸福調(diào)查中，北歐國(guó)家一般表現(xiàn)較好，那里是世界上收入最平等的地區(qū)。收入最不平等的往往都是貧窮國(guó)家，特別是在南美和非洲地區(qū)。

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