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......
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.......
'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......
'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......
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......
India is set to become the world's fourth-largest economy in 2025, but slow income growth, lack of structural change, and rising inequality highlight the gap between progress and real......
Gini & Jony Apparel Pvt Ltd, which owns the 'Gini & Jony' kid's lifestyle brand, is planning to hit the capital market with an initial public offer by the end of the current fiscal to raise Rs 75......
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......
Are 22 per cent of Indians poor, or is it 28 per cent? Do 77 per cent of Indians live on less than Rs 20 a day? Have inequality levels, as represented by the Gini coefficient, risen from 30.3 in......
The third Lusofonia Games, slated to be held in Goa in November, have been postponed to January due to the slow progress of infrastructure work. The Games of 'Lusophone' (Portuguese-speaking......