Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran emphasized considering upward mobility alongside inequality when analyzing economic progress. H...

French economist Thomas Piketty advocated for a global wealth tax to fund climate reparations, especially for countries like India signific...

A new study co-authored by economist Thomas Piketty suggests India should impose a wealth tax on the ultra-rich to tackle inequality. Anmol...

A World Inequality Lab study recommends India implement a wealth tax on the ultra-rich to combat wealth inequality and boost social sector ...

The 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...

Piketty and Chancel analysed different periods of taxation in India, and concluded that inequality dropped sharply from 1950 to the early 1...

Political empowerment is the first key ingredient of poverty removal. People with political agency will demand and obtain education and hea...

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

“Capital and Ideology’’ ranges across time, and has references to India, China and Brazil.

The gap between the forward and other castes is becoming wider over the years, according to a World Inequality Database study.

Using 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...

Those 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...

Thomas Piketty, guru of inequality, and Lucas Chanel have produced a new paper “Indian Income Equality, 1922-2014: from British Raj to Bill...

For the past decade, the Financial Times has been gathering judges from Wall Street and Silicon Valley to determine the year's best busines...

A literature festival in the financial capital of the country will be incomplete without a conversation on economy. Stop by these handpicke...

Airlines like Etihad, Emirates and Singapore have introduced first class suites while flat beds have become almost the norm in business cab...