The average drop for the nine emerging countries – including the still hugely unequal South Africa – that she compares is more than three points (55.7 to 52.5). The same exercise, which treats pensions as deferred consumption and therefore abstracts from the redistributive role of pensions among the older populations of the advanced economies, yields a drop of seven points in the United States and a bit more than nine points in the European Union.
在她所比较的九个新兴国家——包括不平等性情况仍然十分严重的南非——基尼系数平均下降幅度超过3点（55.7至52.5）。同样的计算——将退休金处理为延迟消费，因此从发达经济体老龄人群退休金的再分配效应中提取——表明美国的基尼系数香江了7点，欧盟下降了略多于9点。因此，新兴国家表现更好——但仍能大量改进。