The paper draws on one of the largest datasets on land ownership in India, covering around 650 million people across 270,000 ...

A World Inequality Lab paper reveals significant land inequality in rural India, with the top 10% of households owning 44% of ...

India land inequality study shows top 10% own 44% land while 46% rural households are landless, with Bihar and Punjab showing ...

Stark inequality marks rural land ownership, with a large share concentrated among top households, while nearly half remain ...

A new study from the World Inequality Lab finds that the present-day golden era of Indian billionaires has produced soaring income inequality in India—now among the highest in the world and starker ...

By contrast, the poorest 50% increased their wealth by only 1%, according to data from the World Inequality Lab. “It isn’t just unfair and undermining societal cohesion – it’s a problem for our ...

18 March 2026 - Which countries suffer from high levels of inequality? Has global inequality declined over the past three decades, or remained persistently high? Surprisingly, the answers depend on ...

New Delhi, Apr 7 (PTI) The top 10 per cent rural households of India own 44 per cent of land, while 46 per cent of rural households are landless, according to a working paper released by World ...

A fisherman colony alongside commercial buildings in the Indian city of Mumbai, now Asia’s billionaire capital. Credit - Dhiraj Singh—Bloomberg/Getty Images A new study from the World Inequality Lab ...