Monkeys reject unfair food rewards, demonstrating a sense of fairness. Research shows capuchins and chimpanzees refuse unequal treats. Bono...

Despite India's rising GDP per capita between 2017 and 2024, income inequality in the labor market persists. While median incomes increased...

India's economic growth over two decades has reduced poverty but not equitably. Covid-19 increased income, expenditure, and savings inequal...

A nearly 85% majority of development economists and policy experts, 43 out of 51, in a May 15-June 18 Reuters poll, said they were not conf...

A word that means stacked inequity on one side and stacked privilege on the other was coined by Peter Atwater, a lecturer at Virginia-based...

As per the document, Indian witnessed a decline in inequality of consumption in the decade before the LPG reforms of 1991 due to regulatory...

Based on data and studies, the SBI economists said, "... in hindsight, the pandemic may have been a leveller in terms of inequality with th...

Higher procurement and free distribution of cereals such as wheat and rice have benefitted the poorest of the poor in India, thus helping l...

The pandemic led to massive disruptions - migrant workers in urban areas lost jobs and had to make it back home under difficult circumstanc...

As per the World Inequality Report, the top 10% and the top 1% in India still control 57% and 22% of the national wealth, while the bottom ...

The figure of Rs 2,600 per annum has been arrived at through simulation that replaces food and fuel subsidies in India with a UBI.

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.

The economist said it was "ironical" that during the peak period of the country's development, the corresponding indexes for poverty reduct...

Thanks in part to the caste system, Indian inequality has been more deep and pernicious than that of many other nations.

There is a need to create more non -farm opportunities to facilitate farmers' migration to those jobs so as to ensure income security.

Bardhan, who is working on a sequel to the 'Political Economy of Development in India', was in Delhi to attend a conference. He tells Ullek...

The EU-Latin America-Caribbean summit stressed in its final declaration in Lima that participants were concerned by the impact of increased...