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Gaps in wealth and income in an unequal India

Rising inequality across the country stands to affect not just poverty reduction, but also the country’s economic growth and decision-making.

06 April 2024, 20:24 IST

Gaps in wealth and income in an unequal India

Gaps in wealth and income in an unequal India

Gaps in wealth and income in an unequal India

06 April 2024, 20:24 IST

Damaged republic: With Constitution hollowed out, India’s script goes awry

India has never known such engineered religious divisiveness.

24 March 2024, 23:29 IST

Damaged republic: With Constitution hollowed out, India’s script goes awry

Damaged republic: With Constitution hollowed out, India’s script goes awry

Damaged republic: With Constitution hollowed out, India’s script goes awry

24 March 2024, 23:29 IST

India needs 10-12 million new jobs every year to stop people from looking for jobs in trouble spots

Only the growth in private sector jobs can end the crisis. It is also the only way for economic growth to be inclusive.

15 March 2024, 21:44 IST

India needs 10-12 million new jobs every year to stop people from looking for jobs in trouble spots

India needs 10-12 million new jobs every year to stop people from looking for jobs in trouble spots

India needs 10-12 million new jobs every year to stop people from looking for jobs in trouble spots

15 March 2024, 21:44 IST

Govt is ignoring multidimensional poverty in its poverty narrative

In the Prime Minister’s home state of Gujarat, over 8 million people are still grappling with multidimensional poverty.

12 October 2023, 19:32 IST

Govt is ignoring multidimensional poverty in its poverty narrative

Govt is ignoring multidimensional poverty in its poverty narrative

Govt is ignoring multidimensional poverty in its poverty narrative

12 October 2023, 19:32 IST

How are we defining and measuring poverty in India?

The government of India has not been able to tell citizens the number and share of the population below the consumption poverty line, which has been the traditional method of estimating poverty globally for decades.

12 August 2023, 20:17 IST

How are we defining and measuring poverty in India?

How are we defining and measuring poverty in India?

How are we defining and measuring poverty in India?

12 August 2023, 20:17 IST

Equality – more elusive than ever

Car sales data, like all other evidences, point to increasing inequality in India

22 April 2023, 04:03 IST

Equality – more elusive than ever

Equality – more elusive than ever

Equality – more elusive than ever

22 April 2023, 04:03 IST

Rise in rural distress

One discovers that while regular wage work and casual wage work shares are falling, correspondingly, self-employment is increasing

26 December 2022, 01:05 IST

Rise in rural distress

Rise in rural distress

Rise in rural distress

26 December 2022, 01:05 IST

Help poor and not-so-poor

There has been a general increase in prices, visible in the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) estimates

21 November 2022, 01:54 IST

Help poor and not-so-poor

Help poor and not-so-poor

Help poor and not-so-poor

21 November 2022, 01:54 IST

EPFO enrolment data alone is no proof of job creation

The outcome warrants a more nuanced interpretation rather than simplifying that there is a great spurt in employment generation

06 November 2022, 17:25 IST

EPFO enrolment data alone is no proof of job creation

EPFO enrolment data alone is no proof of job creation

EPFO enrolment data alone is no proof of job creation

06 November 2022, 17:25 IST

Why poverty rose in 2020

The Indian economy contracted (6.6%), more than twice the global economic contraction (3.1%), in FY2020-21

19 October 2022, 01:25 IST

Why poverty rose in 2020

Why poverty rose in 2020

Why poverty rose in 2020

19 October 2022, 01:25 IST