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Two Cheers! India Is In A Good Place

While India should be concerned about disparities, the fact is that whereas three decades ago about half the people had incomes greater than $2.15 a day, today seven out of eight do, notes T N......

Limits to India's engagement with China

Dr Manmohan Singh would be faced with very few choices in Beijing given the Chinese conceived notions of the world today and India’s low ranking in their calculus, says Srikanth Kondapalli.......

The rise and fall of Lula and Brazil

'He is the man,' US President Barack Obama had said at a G-20 gathering, enhancing Lula's stature.Six years later, has Brazil's impressive economic growth turned to sand?Will a President, who......

'Dalit vote will divide in 2019'

'Modi is the first BJP leader to try to include Dalits in its fold.''But the rank and file of his party is backward and want to bash up Muslims and Dalits whenever they have a chance.' In Raisina......

High equality ranking for India masks deeper gaps, say economists

A recent World Bank report placing India among the most equal countries globally may present a limited view of inequality, with economists suggesting that broader data sets could tell a different......

Rich-poor gap: World's 16 most unequal nations

The rich-poor divide has been growing despite the economic boom in several countries. While New Zealand, Israel, and the United States have witnessed a widening gap between the rich and the......

China's wealth gap goes higher than warning levels

The Gini coefficient, which reflects the wealth gap between rich and poor, was at 0.474 level for China in 2012 -- well above the warning levels, a report has said. Known as the Gini coefficient,......

How unequal a country is India?

In economic writings on India it is commonplace to describe Indian economic inequality to be relatively low, says Pranab Bardhan. In economic writings on India it is commonplace to describe Indian......

25 countries that have least income inequality

There are some countries where income inequality is high, which means there is a big difference between the top and bottom earners, while there are nations that have low income inequality. Let's......

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