Mumbai's booming real estate market sees global financial giants occupying luxury towers while low-income residents like taxi driver Ramu V...

A new study reveals stark land inequality in rural India. The top ten percent of households control nearly half of all land. Meanwhile, alm...

An event in Geneva focused on the challenges faced by women in Rajasthan and those seeking asylum. The Sambhali Trust showcased initiatives...

India's policies, rooted in socialist ideals, have historically favored smallness over scale, hindering economic growth and innovation. Thi...

Many countries have attempted to tax the rich through these taxes without success. They fundamentally militate against simple economic logi...

Nitin Kumar Bharti, lead author of a recent World Inequality Lab report, suggests imposing a wealth tax in India to address inequalities, s...

The controversy over Rahul Gandhi's wealth redistribution promise, accused by PM Modi of benefiting Muslims, highlights ongoing economic in...

The real danger with the equality messiahs is their favoured policy prescription, namely tax. Applying Western narratives on taxing the ric...

The report titled 'Survival of the Richest' further said that if India's billionaires are taxed once at 2 per cent on their entire wealth, ...

Often, in discussions on inequality the intended distribution is that of personal distributions of income. There are no satisfactory data o...

India needs to come out with a basic income scheme to make the lockdown work, Thomas Piketty said.

Tata also said that country's greatest weakness is inequality in enforcement and called for same right to govern a billionaire and a street...

The Modi government has addressed the issue in some ways, such as through the manufacturing sector, he said.

The 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.

Weaker labour market institutions, inadequate social protection systems, poor-quality education are among the factors for widening income g...

Even if growth is 'inclusive' in the sense of being more towards the lower end, 'inequality' (depending on how we measure it) can increase.

Governance in India is largely informalised, which has led to rapid growth and also produced counter-trends that are, now, depressing growt...