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India's middle-income trap has a problem money may fixEconomist Thomas Piketty says India can escape the middle-income trap through massive investment in education, healthcare and infrastructur...
GDP is still the GOAT of economic statistics despite its many flawsThe Gross Domestic Product serves as a key indicator of a country's economic status, highlighting overall production. While it may not be p...
India must do more to tax its super-rich, France's Piketty saysFrench economist Thomas Piketty urged India to increase taxes on its super-rich, citing rising inequality. He proposed a wealth tax and inh...
Inequality debate should factor in upward mobility of people: CEAChief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran emphasized considering upward mobility alongside inequality when analyzing economic progress. H...
'Global wealth tax must pay for climate reparation'French economist Thomas Piketty advocated for a global wealth tax to fund climate reparations, especially for countries like India signific...
Rejig of riches: Study moots robin hood tax for equalityA new study co-authored by economist Thomas Piketty suggests India should impose a wealth tax on the ultra-rich to tackle inequality. Anmol...
Study suggests India should impose wealth tax on the ultra-rich to tackle wealth inequalityA World Inequality Lab study recommends India implement a wealth tax on the ultra-rich to combat wealth inequality and boost social sector ...
Growth in range of 7% perfectly good for India unless external environment improves, says SanyalThe growth rate in October-December helped take the estimate for the current fiscal to 7.6 per cent. "We should not attempt to grow this ec...
View: Recalculate inequality — it hasn’t worsened over time, it’s stayed the samePiketty and Chancel analysed different periods of taxation in India, and concluded that inequality dropped sharply from 1950 to the early 1...
Cry over inequality, harder over povertyPolitical empowerment is the first key ingredient of poverty removal. People with political agency will demand and obtain education and hea...
Ensure income for poor, invest in infrastructure: Thomas Piketty“It is not enough to have tax cuts for businesses; you also need to build a system so the poorest have adequate income support,” Thomas Pik...
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.
Thomas Piketty is back with 1,200-page guide to abolishing billionaires“Capital and Ideology’’ ranges across time, and has references to India, China and Brazil.
Study throws light on rising wealth & consumption inequality in IndiaThe gap between the forward and other castes is becoming wider over the years, according to a World Inequality Database study.
View: Thomas Piketty couldn't have been more wrong about India. Just look at the dataUsing tax data for the rich and survey data for the non-rich compounds the illusion. Using tax data for the rich and survey data for the no...
Thomas Piketty makes a worrying point about India: Mihir SharmaThose who read Prime Minister Narendra Modi's election victory in 2014 as a vote for more reform of the sort that India had seen since 1991...
View: Fantastically rising inequality? Thomas Piketty has got it wrongThomas Piketty, guru of inequality, and Lucas Chanel have produced a new paper “Indian Income Equality, 1922-2014: from British Raj to Bill...
The 11 most influential business books of the past decadeFor the past decade, the Financial Times has been gathering judges from Wall Street and Silicon Valley to determine the year's best busines...
Business lessons we learnt at the Times Lit FestA literature festival in the financial capital of the country will be incomplete without a conversation on economy. Stop by these handpicke...
Airlines shrink seats in economy & make flat beds in business classAirlines like Etihad, Emirates and Singapore have introduced first class suites while flat beds have become almost the norm in business cab...