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India Inc. is profitable. So why isn’t it investing?Indian companies are making record profits, but they are not investing in new factories or infrastructure. This is creating fewer jobs and ...
Saurabh Mukherjea’s global strategy: How Marcellus is hunting compounder stocks across 4 multi-trillion dollar megatrendsSaurabh Mukherjea of Marcellus is avoiding AI giants like Nvidia, instead focusing on companies enabling AI's physical infrastructure. His ...
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...
Modi government in panic mode on current economic situation: CongressThe Congress party alleges the Modi government is in panic over the economy. They point to a reported plan to remove capital gains tax on f...
Weaponised dependency: Chinese mercantilism is more damaging to global trade than Trump tariffsThe recent US-China summit saw improved engagement but little progress on global economic challenges. China's trade practices continue to i...
Auto sales reflect economic divide; most Indians shut out from growth story, says CongressThe Congress party has raised concerns over the declining share of passenger cars in India's auto sales, suggesting it reflects economic in...
GST largest marginal contributor to rising poverty in Pakistan: World BankA World Bank study reveals that Pakistan's General Sales Tax disproportionately increases poverty due to its impact on household expenditur...
Tariffs may have helped US as China, India started rising as superpowers —these charges will cost America now: Steven DurlaufEconomist Steven N. Durlauf warns that Trump's tariffs will negatively impact the US economy, citing inefficiencies and damaged internation...
World Competition Day 2024: Trade, competition, and inequalityGlobal experts convened at the WTO headquarters on World Competition Day 2024 to address the interplay of trade, competition, and inequalit...
IMF's Gita Gopinath supports ‘progressive taxation’, flags wealth tax complexitiesIn an interview with TOI, IMF's first deputy managing director Gita Gopinath expressed support for a progressive tax structure. She emphasi...
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...
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 ...
India should impose tax on ultra-wealthy to tackle wealth inequality, says studyThe paper titled 'Proposals For a Wealth Tax Package to Tackle Extreme Inequalities in India' propose a comprehensive tax package on the ul...
Rising multidimensional inequality is impeding growth in India: Ashwini DeshpandeEconomic inequality in India has increased over the last couple of decades. Alongside, economic growth has faltered recently. This means th...
Wealth of India's richest 1% more than 4-times of total for 70% poorest: OxfamIndia's richest 1% hold more than four-times the wealth held by 953 mn people who make up for the bottom 70%.
57 billionaires control 70% of India’s wealth … India is second most unequal economy after Russia: Nisha AgrawalOxfam’s new report ‘Economy for 99%’ claims that since 2015, eight men own the same amount of wealth as the poorest half of the world.
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...
Rahul Gandhi , Narendra Modi, Arvind Kejriwal all underplay how rising inequality threatens India’s futureThanks in part to the caste system, Indian inequality has been more deep and pernicious than that of many other nations.
Workers exiting labour force will be biggest impediment to global recovery: J Bradford DelongThe pattern of the long-term unemployed in the Great Depression will be the pattern for the long-term unemployed in the North Atlantic, Del...
Vast inequality simmers below surface in ChinaChina still has a long way to go because its per capita GDP is still around $4000 to $5000 (depending on how you calculate and what populat...