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Inequality News

Wealth of India, hits and misses

If Artificial Intelligence (AI)’s gains accrue mainly to owners of capital rather than workers, inequality could deepen. (Bloomberg)

Published 114 days ago

China’s hereditary elite is taking shape

Illustration: The Economist/Xinmei Liu

Updated 123 days ago

World Social Justice Day: Giving the vulnerable a real chance

World Day of Social Justice

Published 144 days ago

How governments are increasingly soaking the rich

The Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory, is a popular tax haven.

Updated 147 days ago

Bengaluru man’s photo of girl studying while selling Christmas items goes viral

A Bengaluru man captured a poignant moment of a girl studying while selling Christmas goods.

Published 198 days ago

Climate crisis to AI: Challenges facing the future of humanity

An aerial view of a stretch of the Amazon rainforest deforested by illegal wildfire in Brazil on August 20, 2024. (AFP)

Published 223 days ago

Bison Twitter review: Fans hail Mari Selvaraj, Dhruv Vikram's hard-hitting drama

Bison Kaalamaadan Twitter review: Early reactions praise its powerful storytelling and performances, particularly highlighting Dhruv Vikram's breakout role.

Published 270 days ago

Partial flood defence shifts risks toward vulnerable people in cities: IIT study

Flooding is among the most devastating of natural hazards, causing around US$41.1 billion in annual economic losses and affecting 74.6 million people worldwide between 2003 and 2022. (AP Tolang)

Published 331 days ago

How far India has come, and what holds it back

It would be difficult to believe inequality has risen, given that more people got pulled out of poverty and the number of those in the middle class grew. (HT PHOTO)

Published 364 days ago

Inequality reducing rapidly in India: PM Modi at Rozgar Mela

Prime Minister Narenda Modi. (@narendramodi)

Updated 367 days ago

Venki Ramakrishnan: “The source of funding might distort research priorities”

Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan (Kerala Literature Festival)

Published 372 days ago

Congress slams Centre over World Bank's poverty report

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh attacked the centre over World Bank's Poverty and Equity Brief for India.

Published 373 days ago

Guest column: Bridging inequality in the age of AI & India’s path to inclusive devp

Students need exposure to real-world learning to prepare for 21st-century challenges. At every level, inclusivity and social justice must remain central. (Picture only for representational purpose)

Published 409 days ago

Absences and disputes mar G20 finance chiefs' talks

Absences and disputes mar G20 finance chiefs' talks

Published 503 days ago

India must do more to tax its super rich, says French economist Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty, a French economist and novelist, stated on Friday that given India's high levels of inequality, more should be done to tax its super-rich.

Updated 576 days ago

Why diversity, equity, and inclusion are non-negotiable for GenZ

Equality

Published 606 days ago

India in its most precarious, difficult economic situation in many years: Cong slams govt

India in its most precarious, difficult economic situation in many years: Cong slams govt

Published 622 days ago

We need strong public policy to combat inequality

Collective good of the society

Published 661 days ago

A tragedy that educated people are becoming casteist, says CM Siddaramaiah

Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah (File Photo)

Published 688 days ago

Morning briefing: 3 TDP MPs likely to be inducted in Modi cabinet, and more

Three-time parliamentarian of the TDP from Srikakulam Lok Sabha constituency Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu will likely be inducted into the Union Cabinet (ANI)

Published 766 days ago

India logs fall in inequality between 2011-12 and 2022-23, says govt report

The full report released Friday shows a fall in the Gini coefficient, a commonly used measure of inequality, for both rural and urban spending between 2011-12 and 2022-23

Updated 766 days ago

Political promises in an aspirational ethos

FILE- Workers use machinery at a coastal road project construction site in Mumbai, India, Aug. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)

Published 778 days ago

Mexico's poorest receiving less government funds under president who brought poor to the fore

Mexico's poorest receiving less government funds under president who brought poor to the fore

Published 781 days ago

Poverty and inequality debate resurfaces in election season

This debate has been stirred up by the release of new data from a government-sponsored consumption survey. (HT Photo)

Updated 806 days ago

All INDIA bloc parties to hold rally in Delhi today

Preparations underway at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi on Saturday. (Vipin Kumar/HT Photo)

Updated 835 days ago

Developed India needs the dignity of development

For every citizen to realise their fullest human potential, our government schools, hospitals, health and nutrition centres and skill opportunities, all have to perform much better than at present.

Published 839 days ago

Ecostani | India’s rising inequality questions country’s governance model

A report by the World Inequality Lab, which is yet another example of income disparity in the country, said the distribution of economic growth in India has significant consequences on global inequality dynamics. (CES) (AP)

Published 842 days ago

Japan Couples Sue to End Surname Law, This Time With Business Backing

HT Image

Published 858 days ago

Terms of Trade | Will HCES findings change politics in India?

Markets left to themselves after the 1991 economic reforms have generated a lot of tailwinds for the incomes of classes with access to either material or intellectual capital in India.

Published 866 days ago

Karnataka CM promotes affixing portrait of Basavanna in all govt offices

Siddaramaiah (ANI)

Published 881 days ago

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