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BRICS Summit 2026: NDB crucial institution for promoting sustainable development, say bloc membersBRICS countries on Saturday backed the New Development Bank as a crucial institution for sustainable development, reducing inequality and s...
BRICS adopts New Delhi Declaration: Inside the 140-point document on Global South's ambitionsBRICS leaders adopted the New Delhi Declaration at the 18th summit, reaffirming their commitment to cooperation, multilateralism and a more...
To Compete in the Global Economy, Europe Needs to Boost Its VC EcosystemEurope’s struggle to produce globally dominant companies is not a mystery—it is the predictable result of a weak and fragmented venture cap...
From 2007 to 2015, New York City planted one million trees across its five boroughs, a $400 million campaign to widen the shade canopy and cool streets baking under urban heatNew York City's MillionTreesNYC initiative planted one million trees between 2007 and 2015. This project aimed to cool neighborhoods and im...
Research Reveals a Fundamental Shift in How Investors View ESGESG investing has not disappeared, but it has changed. Longitudinal survey data from U.S. retail investors and large institutional asset ma...
US Stock Market: Fed Chair Kevin Warsh unveils expert panels to overhaul US Central Bank policy frameworkFederal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh announced a comprehensive review of monetary policy. Five taskforces comprising prominent economists w...
India’s prosperity problem: Public finances now compensate the majority for economic insecurity, regardless of growthIndia has significantly reduced extreme poverty, achieving a major development goal. However, recent economic growth has not broadly benefi...
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...
India lifted 170 million out of poverty in a decade: World BankA World Bank report reveals India lifted 170 million people out of poverty between 2011-12 and 2022-23, with extreme poverty declining sign...
The trilemma of inequalitiesIndia's economic growth over two decades has reduced poverty but not equitably. Covid-19 increased income, expenditure, and savings inequal...
Gotta fix those inequality gapsSince 1947, India has experienced considerable economic expansion, yet the advantages of this growth have not been evenly spread. The era o...
India is taking millions of its people out of extreme poverty now — this will help to reduce global economic inequality: Justin Wolfers"The biggest low-income nations have moved closer to becoming middle-income — that itself helps to reduce global income inequality. Regardi...
Poverty in numbers: What does the data tell us?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 ...
Ethical wealth creation is way forward: Economic Survey“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...
View: It's time to scrutinise the link between poverty and income inequalityWhy does the rise of crorepatis cause poverty to increase? Much of their wealth gains are due to property and stock market booms, which do ...
India should focus more on reducing poverty than inequality: Arvind PanagariyaInequality is complex as well as multi-dimensional and in developing countries like India, poverty reduction should take precedence over in...
India performs miserably in war on inequalityThe report said that if India were to reduce its inequality by a third, 170 million people could be raised out of poverty .
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The magical Kuznets curve theory was formulated in large part for the wrong reasons, and its empirical underpinnings were extremely fragile.
Generational justice: Target poverty reduction than income inequalityThe developed country angst about inequality stirred by Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century is irrelevant for India.
'Vested interests setback to India's poverty reduction quest'The economist said it was "ironical" that during the peak period of the country's development, the corresponding indexes for poverty reduct...