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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...
Education policy failure is being dressed up as innovation, employer abdication as a skills gapIndian universities are failing to equip graduates with needed skills. Private firms now offer expensive courses, creating a barrier for ma...
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...
It's popular mechanics 101: India’s edge lies in using AI to enhance human productivity, not replace itThe piece argues that AI is not an inevitable force shaping economic outcomes; rather, societies decide how its benefits are distributed. H...
Noida workers’ unrest: A story of hidden inflation and its impactNoida factory workers protest: Years of rising costs have diminished buying power, creating widespread discontent among many. Wage growth l...
The myth of India’s extreme inequality: What the data gets wrongRecent studies reveal a misrepresentation of income inequality in India, challenging the commonly accepted pre-tax Gini coefficient of 0.61...
Income disparity in India has declined 74.2% since FY14, reveals SBI studyThe SBI report has shown a 74.2% decline in income disparity for individuals earning up to Rs 5 lakh annually between FY14 and FY23, attrib...
How much an average lower-middle class Indian earns in 2024
K-shaped? Kabhi nahinA word that means stacked inequity on one side and stacked privilege on the other was coined by Peter Atwater, a lecturer at Virginia-based...
View: Recalculate inequality — it hasn’t worsened over time, it’s stayed the samePiketty and Chancel analysed different periods of taxation in India, and concluded that inequality dropped sharply from 1950 to the early 1...
View: Post-Covid recovery of poor households exceeds expectations. But many still need a leg-upThe recovery was aided by benefits received through welfare schemes of both state and central governments, which helped bolster support for...
The state of inequality in IndiaIn India, the Periodic Labour Force Survey for the years 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20 shows that the top 10% earn approximately equal to th...
India needs basic income scheme to make lockdown work: Thomas PikettyIndia needs to come out with a basic income scheme to make the lockdown work, Thomas Piketty said.
View: The missing politics of inequalityConsidering the level of inequality in India in recent times, which is incomparable to democracies around the world, one would expect it to...
Inequality rise extreme in India, not so for China: Report
View: Thomas Piketty couldn't have been more wrong about India. Just look at the dataUsing 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...
India has gone from British Raj to Billionaire Raj: Report"Top 1% of earners captured less than 21% of total income in the late 1930s, before dropping to 6% in early 1980s and rising to 22% today,"...
India has gone from British Raj to Billionaire Raj: ReportThe reports show that between 1980 and 2014, income of top 0.1% income earners in France and China rose six times faster than the income of...