It plots the cumulative percentage of total income received against the cumulative percentage of the population. A perfectly equal distribution would be represented by a straight diagonal line (line of equality), while the curve bending away from this line indicates inequality.
Measures of distribution of income :
Asked in CGPSC Prelims Exam 2018 · Topic: Nature of Indian Economy (Poverty and Income Inequality)
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