Indian universities are failing to equip graduates with needed skills. Private firms now offer expensive courses, creating a barrier for ma...

The 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...

The piece argues that AI is not an inevitable force shaping economic outcomes; rather, societies decide how its benefits are distributed. H...

Noida factory workers protest: Years of rising costs have diminished buying power, creating widespread discontent among many. Wage growth l...

Recent studies reveal a misrepresentation of income inequality in India, challenging the commonly accepted pre-tax Gini coefficient of 0.61...

The 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...

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...

Piketty and Chancel analysed different periods of taxation in India, and concluded that inequality dropped sharply from 1950 to the early 1...

The recovery was aided by benefits received through welfare schemes of both state and central governments, which helped bolster support for...

In 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 to come out with a basic income scheme to make the lockdown work, Thomas Piketty said.

Considering the level of inequality in India in recent times, which is incomparable to democracies around the world, one would expect it to...

Using 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...

"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,"...

The 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...

We should be clearer and less sanctimonious about inequality. Poverty is an absolute concept. Inequality is relative.