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A curve formed by plotting | A curve formed by plotting, on a cumulative basis, the amount of income or wealth possessed by members of a community against the number of individuals that possess that amount - so that equality is denoted by a straight line and inequality by the degree of curvature. | ||
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Lorenz curve [r]: A curve formed by plotting, on a cumulative basis, the amount of income or wealth possessed by members of a community against the number of individuals that possess that amount - so that equality is denoted by a straight line and inequality by the degree of curvature.