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

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

Only 15% landholders earn 91% of total national income

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

Deepening green tech divide between Global North, South to worsen economic inequality, warns UN

Without decisive action by governments, developing countries may miss out on economic opportunities from green tech

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

As told to Parliament (February 13, 2023): Climate change likely to pull down wheat yield by 6-25% in 2100, says minister

Rainfed rice yields in India are projected to reduce marginally

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

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

US is becoming a ‘developing country’ on global rankings that measure democracy, inequality

Racism, devotion to ‘American exceptionalism’ behind the decline; US slips to 41st position on UN’s development index 

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

Nearly 4,000 Odisha villages free of child marriage now

Child marriages surged after COVID-19 first wave; streamlined state efforts helped arrest the trend, claim officials

Gender gap in labour market stagnant since 1995, flags UN report

Gender equality a far-fetched goal; women living alone more likely to be in the labour market, finds report