According to the recently released World Inequality Report 2022, India is now among the most unequal countries in the world.The report was released by the World Inequality Lab, which aims to promote research on global inequality dynamics. This report presents the most up-to-date synthesis of ...
INEQUALITY KILLS 19 In India, the wealth of billionaire Gautam Adani has multiplied eight-fold during the pandemic,104 and he has significantly benefited from fossil fuels, a sector in which he is growing his footprint.105 As reported in the Financial Times, Adani has made use of state ...
ESCAP(Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific) in its annual report for 2006 has clearly stated "Increasing inequality in tandem with high growth has been appoint of growing concern in the Asia and Pacific region. Though perfect equality is probably unattainable, inequality becomes a problem ...
For that, we follow a comparative approach, comparing it with India—a country with a very different pattern in which inequality is much lower for expenditure than for income. We investigate the extent to which the difference between the two countries comes from differences in the composition of...
While the tax structure in India looks reasonably progressive on paper, in practice much of the progressive taxation, like that on the incomes of the richest, is not collected. India also fares poorly on labour rights and respect for women in the workplace, as the majority o...
Similarly, a study in India showed that nearly 11% of older adults have experienced some form of violence after turning the age of 60 [12]. However, this significantly varies across sex and income groups. Existing literature emphasized the trends and patterns of older adults’ violence in ...
The Human Development Index (HDI) is recognised as the most commonly used composite index to assess the socio-economic progress of a country. To preserve its pioneering role in development, there has to be a reduction in inequalities and cross-state conv
(2019) found that children’s views on gender equality in India are affected by their parents’ opinions. Using individual surveys from eight developing countries, Levtov et al. (2014) found that men with higher education, income, and experience of gender equality during their childhood tend to...
percent of wealthiest people have soared over the past four decades, the gains have been most dramatic in India, Russia and the United States. In the Middle East, Brazil and sub-Saharan Africa, inequality remained stable at very high levels, forming an "inequality frontier," the report said....
Westerners worried about growing disparities at home shouldn’t overlook the transformative effect of liberalisation in India and China July 23 2024 Martin Wolf Immigration is both essential and impossible The option of temporary worker contracts is not embraced by either side but it may be the solut...