"economic-inequality"

India’s social-justice debate should be less obsessed with deciding which community is permanently “privileged” and which is permanently “backward”

India’s growth story remains incomplete if young people must leave farms, families and communities behind to survive on insecure work

Paris-based World Inequality Lab’s 2026 report paints a grim picture of highly skewed wealth distribution, urging nations to rethink their growth models

Economic inequality is an unfortunate truth the world has to live with. What is more disturbing is the widening gulf between the rich and the poor, despite a surfeit of welfare models being experimented across the world. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has made the world more unequal, with wealth distribution becoming more skewed than ever […]

By JR Janumpalli There is a wide variation in the key economic indicators of the Indian States. GDP, GDP per capita, GINI(ce) and percentage of poverty differ greatly, underlining the very uneven economic performance, in the country’s 33 States and UTs. (See infographics). The configuration is as spiked as in the case of the countries […]