New York City's MillionTreesNYC initiative planted one million trees between 2007 and 2015. This project aimed to cool neighborhoods and im...

ESG investing has not disappeared, but it has changed. Longitudinal survey data from U.S. retail investors and large institutional asset ma...

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh announced a comprehensive review of monetary policy. Five taskforces comprising prominent economists w...

India has significantly reduced extreme poverty, achieving a major development goal. However, recent economic growth has not broadly benefi...

A World Bank study reveals that Pakistan's General Sales Tax disproportionately increases poverty due to its impact on household expenditur...

A World Bank report reveals India lifted 170 million people out of poverty between 2011-12 and 2022-23, with extreme poverty declining sign...

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

Since 1947, India has experienced considerable economic expansion, yet the advantages of this growth have not been evenly spread. The era o...

"The biggest low-income nations have moved closer to becoming middle-income — that itself helps to reduce global income inequality. Regardi...

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 ...

“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...

Why does the rise of crorepatis cause poverty to increase? Much of their wealth gains are due to property and stock market booms, which do ...

Inequality is complex as well as multi-dimensional and in developing countries like India, poverty reduction should take precedence over in...

The report said that if India were to reduce its inequality by a third, 170 million people could be raised out of poverty .

The magical Kuznets curve theory was formulated in large part for the wrong reasons, and its empirical underpinnings were extremely fragile.

The developed country angst about inequality stirred by Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century is irrelevant for India.

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