A study conducted by researchers from King's College London found that individuals living with severe mental illnesses such as schizophreni...

The decline in inequality and the much modest increase in poverty during the pandemic as observed in various studies is not a finding exclu...

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...

Often, in discussions on inequality the intended distribution is that of personal distributions of income. There are no satisfactory data o...

While the bottom half of the population in India earns Rs 53,610, the top 10% earns twenty times more at Rs 11,66,520. While the top 10% an...

COVID-19 has also derailed progress against diseases that affect poor people. .

Four states — Delhi, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Assam — reopened schools earlier this month after more than a year of disruption in learning. E...

India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T S Tirumurti tweeted that in the Security Council consultations on COVID-19, he said...

Clean water and air, income and social protection, and food security among other environmental and public policy goods are vital to achievi...

“Given India’s stage of development, India must continue to focus on economic growth to lift the poor out of poverty by expanding the overa...

While the government and much of the formal sector maintain that the domestic economy is seeing a V-shaped recovery post the national lockd...

ET Evoke’s global experts highlight strategies from government safety nets to equitable corporate norms and companies’ enhanced sensitivity.

In conversation with the WEF Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab, the French President said, "We will get out of this pandemic only...

According to the report, workers in the bottom half of pre-COVID labour income group suffered bigger income losses than the top half follow...

Loss of employment is considered as the most severe immediate impact of the Covid-19 crisis, as per a study.

Increasing income inequality has implications for consumption pattern.