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Study reveals 'significant disparities' between rich, poor countries in availability of cancer drugsFrom 1990 to 2022, the number of new cancer drugs launched annually increased significantly in high-income countries, from 0.5 to over eigh...
Failure to tax world's richest means global tax needed: reportThe idea of a global tax on the richest is already supported at the G20 by Brazil, France, Spain and South Africa -- although the United St...
UK economy: A crisis in the making for some time, with India trade deal offering hopeEconomic experts agree on the massive scale of the challenge, even as they hold out the prospect of a free trade agreement (FTA) with India...
IMF slams UK government tax plans, warns cost-of-living crisis may worsenThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) has criticized the British government's £45-billion tax package. The IMF stated that the tax package ...
MSF urges rich nations to accept TRIPS waiverThe appeal comes ahead of talks on TRIPS waiver at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) this week. A TRIPS waiver would temporarily lift pate...
View: It's time to scrutinise the link between poverty and income inequalityWhy does the rise of crorepatis cause poverty to increase? Much of their wealth gains are due to property and stock market booms, which do ...
India’s rich list and prevailing inequalityAs per the Hurun report, as of July 2018, India has 831 people with a wealth of Rs 1,000 crore or more.
India ranks among the bottom 15 of Oxfam world inequality indexThe index is based on a new database of indicators which measures government action on social spending, tax and labour rights.
New study challenges Thomas Piketty's theory about wealthDoes wealth really remain in the same families for generations?
Latest inequality data reveals rising top income shares in China, USThe new online data sets, released at the American Economic Association Annual Conference last week, use national accounts, survey data, fi...
Trust gap widens to record high globally; 4th highest in India: Edelman SurveyThe study said that the global trust disparity between the informed public and mass population has risen to a record high level of 12 point...
WEF 2015: $18 trillion unaccounted black money stashed in tax havensThe estimate from Oxfam comes at a time when countries worldwide, including India, are making efforts to crack down on the menace of black ...
Bill Gates loves my book but disagrees on tax plan: Thomas PikettyThomas Piketty, the French economist whose best-selling book has added tinder to the debate on income inequality, counts the world’s riches...
Generational justice: Target poverty reduction than income inequalityThe developed country angst about inequality stirred by Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century is irrelevant for India.
Hinduja brothers among Britain's top 3 richest familiesThe Hinduja brothers have emerged as the third richest family in Britain as part of an analysis of the divide between the rich and poor in ...
- Govt pegs GDP growth during UPA rule at 8.5%
Pegging the country's avg growthat 8.5% during UPA rule, the govt said it was determined to take India to the league of "middle income coun...
- Less corrupt India's GDP can leap to $28.2 tn by '20: Prahalad
India can increase its GDP by a staggering $28.2 trillion by 2020 if it improves human development index and becomes less corrupt. How to h...