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This CharityScorecard.org site was in use from 2006 to 2008, but is now mostly dormant, and the material here is out of date. The GiveWell project has similar goals and is being actively maintained. I've left the old CharityScorecard.org content here just for the historical record.

Gini index

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Gini index  
A measure of the relative equality or inequality of income distribution within a country (or group of people). 0 represents a completely equal spread of income, while 100 represents a completely unequal spread where one person gets all the income. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_index and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality
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