The divergence seems to be due to higher income groups benefiting disproportionately from policy changes and also because ...

This is the broad message of the World Inequality Report (WIR) 2026, the third in the series after those in 2018 and 2022.

It is a scary scenario. The richest 10 per cent in the world own nearly 75 per cent of the global wealth, compared to barely ...

When economies boom, the gains rarely trickle down. Around the world, the top one per cent surges ahead while the bottom half ...

Economist Rajesh Shukla, in an interview, says taxing high-income farmers is as much about fairness as it is about plugging ...

Economist Ajit Ranade argues that India’s growth challenge is not just about growing faster, but about growing differently—by ...

Noted economist Prabhat Patnaik has flagged India’s sharply rising income and wealth inequality and advocated the introduction of a wealth tax and an inheritance tax to finance a set of ...

Debating whether 3 lakh rupees makes someone an “Indian-equivalent lakhpati” misses the larger truth. The real story is not ...

Dr. Rahul Kundal [email protected] As Artificial Intelligence (AI) reshapes industries and social systems, India stands ...

In a year of multiple external shocks, the economy surpassed all expectations. This, however, should not blind policymakers ...

ALBAWABA- India has surpassed Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy by nominal gross domestic product, marking a ...

Meanwhile, India ranked 102 out of 123 countries, i.e., in the “serious” category, on the Global Hunger Index, according to ...