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BRICS+ agriculture beyond borders: Trade and resilience for a food-secure worldWith India’s leadership and BRICS+ cooperation, agriculture can become not only a source of food, but a foundation for resilience, prosperi...- CAG conducting special audit of 101 cities to assess ease of living, says MurthyIndia is auditing 101 cities to understand citizen ease of living. The Comptroller and Auditor General is also examining transport and logi...
- Assam Exit Poll Results 2026: Can Himanta Biswa Sarma lead BJP to another win?Assam Exit Poll Results 2026: Exit polls predict a second consecutive term for Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and the BJP-led NDA in As...
- Mumbai’s skyline is soaring. So is the pressure on housingMumbai's booming real estate market sees global financial giants occupying luxury towers while low-income residents like taxi driver Ramu V...
- Top 10 per cent rural households control 44 per cent of land in India: ReportA new study reveals stark land inequality in rural India. The top ten percent of households control nearly half of all land. Meanwhile, alm...
- 'Desert Daughters of India': UN Human Rights Council event in Geneva spotlights struggles of marginalised Rajasthan womenAn event in Geneva focused on the challenges faced by women in Rajasthan and those seeking asylum. The Sambhali Trust showcased initiatives...
- If India persists in its ‘socialist’ cult of smallness, it will remain a society optimised for mediocrityIndia's policies, rooted in socialist ideals, have historically favored smallness over scale, hindering economic growth and innovation. Thi...
- View: Don't eat the rich, it'll hurt the restMany countries have attempted to tax the rich through these taxes without success. They fundamentally militate against simple economic logi...
- No vote-bank threat, less capital-flight risk from wealth tax: Nitin Kumar BhartiNitin Kumar Bharti, lead author of a recent World Inequality Lab report, suggests imposing a wealth tax in India to address inequalities, s...
- Wealth redistribution: The economics behind Rahul Gandhi's 'Robin Hood' ideaThe controversy over Rahul Gandhi's wealth redistribution promise, accused by PM Modi of benefiting Muslims, highlights ongoing economic in...
- View: Market fix for inequalityThe real danger with the equality messiahs is their favoured policy prescription, namely tax. Applying Western narratives on taxing the ric...
- India's richest 1% own more than 40% of total wealth: OxfamThe report titled 'Survival of the Richest' further said that if India's billionaires are taxed once at 2 per cent on their entire wealth, ...
- Inequality is a relative concept. Here's what one must do to find the truthOften, in discussions on inequality the intended distribution is that of personal distributions of income. There are no satisfactory data o...
- India needs basic income scheme to make lockdown work: Thomas PikettyIndia needs to come out with a basic income scheme to make the lockdown work, Thomas Piketty said.
- Guidelines needed to monitor corporates' CSR spending: Ratan TataTata also said that country's greatest weakness is inequality in enforcement and called for same right to govern a billionaire and a street...
- Between growth & protecting people at the bottom, Indian economy more balanced than US: Joseph StiglitzThe Modi government has addressed the issue in some ways, such as through the manufacturing sector, he said.
- Government data on inequality misleadingThe income share of India's top 0.01 per cent was less than 0.4 per cent in 1980, but rose to 1.5 to 2 per cent by the end of the 1990s.
- Poor-rich gap growing in India, Asia-Pacific: UNESCAPWeaker labour market institutions, inadequate social protection systems, poor-quality education are among the factors for widening income g...
- NSS data shows need to get over our obsession with misleading definitions of inequalityEven if growth is 'inclusive' in the sense of being more towards the lower end, 'inequality' (depending on how we measure it) can increase.
- The crisis of governance in IndiaGovernance in India is largely informalised, which has led to rapid growth and also produced counter-trends that are, now, depressing growt...
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