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Sunday, October 26, 2025
TopicEconomic inequality

Topic: economic inequality

India & China’s inequality trajectories similar, says economist at Giri Deshingkar Memorial Lecture

Economist Vamsi Vakulabharanam notes that despite differing political systems, both nations have had similar inequality trajectories, particularly after adopting market reforms.

SubscriberWrites: Wealth of a Nation is not measured in gold or money

In the process of wealth assessment, there is a need to distinguish between poverty and inequality. Poverty is an economic construct.

Glittering GDP, high poverty: The paradox of Karnataka’s unequal growth

Karnataka has one of the highest per capita incomes in India, but 36 per cent of the state’s GDP comes from just one district — Bengaluru Urban.

Global inequalities don’t have easy solutions. But altering trade policy can be a start

A new vision for the global trading system must encompass equitable access to the benefits of trade for all of society.

India’s top 100 billionaires earned Rs 13 lakh crore despite Covid hit — Oxfam report

Oxfam report says wealth of India’s top 100 billionaires increased enough during Covid that, if divided equally, it could translate to over Rs 94,000 each for 138 million of India’s poorest.

India could afford to overlook economic inequality until now. Covid has changed that

For two decades, I had maintained that unlike the developed West, India should not be overly concerned about inequalities because our economy was in the growth phase.

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Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.