Talk:Trickle up effect
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'Whatever the mechanism, there may be some empirical evidence that wealth is trickling up in industrial societies.'
Someone needs to do some reading or original research to gather evidence for or against this assertion.
This is the bare bones of an article, and needs to be fleshed out with empirical data, etc.
Maybe I'll say more about the chav phenomenon sometime soon, but I've done enough writing for now.
I could also say something about farmers in developing nations getting hooked into using proprietary seed fertilizer and pesticide paid for on credit.
- Original research to defend or refute a point of view is generally off-limits for Wikipedia. If there's a published study that has "trickle up" in the title, that would be appropriate. Gazpacho 09:24, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
It appears that Statistics Canada wants money for their Gini coefficient data, whereas US and UK are willing to give this data freely. I couldn't find the data for France. You are invited to add data for other countries, www.unstats.un.org and list of national statistics bureaux may be a good starting point.
Is there a way of combining Gini and GDP data to get some idea of whether poor people are getting poorer in absolute terms? Like if Gini is increasing and GDP is down, I think it would follow that this is the case. Perhaps someone au fait with mathematical economics could come up with a formula which combines Gini and GDP which could compare the situation at two different times, saying at what point in the income distribution someone would have to be for GDP growth to compensate for Gini increases. Such a formula would have to assume (accurately or otherwise) that income distribution follows the shape of some statistical distribution (e.g. Pareto), as details of the shape of the income distribution are lost when the Gini coefficient is calculated.
[edit] Totally disputed
This article appears to have zero references or sources for the use of this phrase. Gazpacho 02:14, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Irrelevant external links?
I removed the two external links. One was to the CIA World Factbook homepage and the other was to the US Census Bureau homepage. While this article is about economics, and both the World Factbook homepage and US Census Bureau homepage contain economic data, I do not quite think that is enough reason to link to them from here. Nothing about the CIA or their Factbook or the Census Bureau or anything about any census whatsoever is mentioned in the article so I think it is safe to say that these links are irrelevent. --76.2.44.243 03:06, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
