Wealth, inequality and children’s right to survival in India

The National Family Health Survey – 4 shows how economic inequality has a direct effect on stunting and wasting of India’s children

दुनिया से असमानता खत्म हो सकती है लेकिन सरकारें ऐसा नहीं चाहतीं

आर्थिक संकट के दौर में भी अमीर अधिक अमीर हो रहे हैं जबकि गरीब गरीबी के दलदल में धंसते जा रहे हैं

Unequal India:101 billionaires thrive; 364 million poor struggle to survive

About 27.5 per cent of India’s population is multidimensionally poor and 8.6 per cent of the country’s people live in extreme poverty

India second most unequal region in wealth distribution: report

India’s 10 per cent rich share 55 per cent of the national income, making it the second most unequal region after the Middle East

Why I should be tolerant

In this exclusive extract from the book, Narain says the most powerful nations would like to believe there is no other side. So, there is no …

Cut inequality to fight climate crisis

Economic inequality raises carbon emissions, with the rich contributing most: Human Development Index

How economic inequality is widening in today’s India

The 21st century has witnessed development with a yawning gap where wealth is concentrated in a few hands

How India remains poor: Nine billionaires own as much as half the people

India protests against rising Inequality

Mozambique case study shows that poverty is about much more than income

Representing poverty as a well-defined objective condition focuses attention on symptoms and risks diverting attention away from underlying …

Kenya’s Turkana County experienced the highest increase in inequality: Report

It is among the 12 counties in the country where inequality rose

असमानता पर गांधी के मन की बात

"मेरे अनुयायी लोगों से यह कभी नहीं कहते कि अंग्रेज या जनरल डायर बुरे हैं। वे बताते हैं कि ये लोग व्यवस्था के शिकार ...

Only 15% landholders earn 91% of total national income

Income inequality makes agrarian crisis challenging; inequality is worse among farmers than the formal economy

Southern Africa most unequal region on the continent: Report

Top 10% of society in the region took the lion’s share of the national income, whereas the bottom 40% took just 4%

What does it take to tax the rich?

There is no doubt that we will not be able to fix the inequality crisis and build a more equal world without making the rich pay their fair share …

World Bank report paints contrasting picture of African economy

While poverty may be lower than what current estimates suggest, the number of people living in extreme poverty has increased since 1990

Why inequality is India’s worst enemy

India’s per capita gross domestic product increased five times between 2000 and 2019. The income, however, is concentrated only in a few …

Inequality among farmers keeps 85 per cent out of discourse

Like in the formal economy, the farm economy also suffers from concentration of lands within a small group

How India remains poor: ‘It will take 7 generations for India’s poor to reach mean income’

World Economic Forum’s latest report says social inequality negates gains from high economic growth

15 प्रतिशत बड़े किसानों के पास 91 प्रतिशत आय

किसानों में आय की असमानता कृषि संकट में वृद्धि कर रही है। यह असमानता अर्थव्यवस्था के दूसरे सेक्टरों के मुकाबले अधिक है

Land inequality threatens livelihood of 2.5 bln: Report

There is urgent need to act on land equality for any significant progress towards global sustainability, stability and social justice, flags Land …

'Dissatisfaction with quality of life triggered Arab Spring'

Standard development indicators failed to predict the outburst of anger in the spring of 2011, says a World Bank report

COVID-19 pandemic: Women in charge

Women make up the majority of workers in the health and social welfare sectors globally. Nearly one in three women work in agriculture and do …

G7 governments are boosting inequality: Oxfam

If current trends in economic growth and inequality remain unchanged, around 550 million people will be under extreme poverty in 2030

भारत क्यों है गरीब-5: वैश्वीकरण से बढ़ रही है असमानता, अमीर हुए और ज्यादा अमीर

वर्ल्ड इकोनॉमिक फोरम की वार्षिक बैठक से पहले जारी रिपोर्ट में कहा गया कि भारत के 63 लोगों के पास सालाना बजट से ज्यादा ...

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