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

Political empowerment is the first key ingredient of poverty removal. People with political agency will demand and obtain education and hea...

As per the 'World Inequality Report 2022', India is among the most unequal countries in the world, with rising poverty and an 'affluent eli...

The richest-club of 1% has taken more than a third of all extra wealth accumulated since 1995.

The study found that the burden of climate policies in an attempt to limit climate change has been "disproportionately borne by low-income ...

Congress' minimum income plan is short on details on what it means for the nation’s fiscal consolidation path.

"Given the extreme rise of inequality in India over the past 3 decades, it is welcome that a party comes up with proposals to increase livi...

The panel is expected to focus on growth and inequality.

The number of ultra-high networth households in the country, which represents those with a networth of over Rs 25 crore or more, has grown ...

The report - World Inequality Report - has put three other countries, North America, China and Russia in the same category.

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...

The Indian economy will grow 6.7% in FY18 against 7.2% estimated earlier, according to the latest edition of the IMF’s flagship World Econo...

Those who read Prime Minister Narendra Modi's election victory in 2014 as a vote for more reform of the sort that India had seen since 1991...

"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...

The new online data sets, released at the American Economic Association Annual Conference last week, use national accounts, survey data, fi...