Thursday, 20 January, 2022
TopicIncome Inequalities

Topic: Income Inequalities

India’s income inequality fell post 2020 lockdown as rich got poorer, US economic study shows

Nikhil Rampal -
Non-peer-reviewed paper by US-based non-profit NBER says pandemic brought decline in inequality in two senses, the second being consumption inequality also fell marginally.

We asked people in 14 states if rich-poor gap is a big issue: Prashnam Survey

Rajesh Jain -
The Prashnam survey asked 2,895 people from across 14 states what they thought contributed the most to income inequality in India today.

Choice of work, education, better income needed for bondage survivors to remain free — study

Unnati Sharma -
The study involved 88 respondents, including children, who are survivors of human trafficking in UP and Bihar and have been reintegrated with help from NGOs.

Milton Friedman was wrong, an economy is not meant to only serve shareholders but everyone

Joe Nocera -
Shareholders' capitalism has over the years been used to justify bamboozling customers, squeezing workers, avoiding taxes and lavishing stock options on executives.

LSE’s Amartya Sen Chair to study global inequality but the lessons will be for India

Arvind Kumar -
India’s growing inequality, poverty and low human development index are of global concern and extensive research is needed to find out solutions.

Dhan Vapasi: A new path that can make Indians prosperous

Rajesh Jain -
For too long, India’s governments have focused on the wrong ideas and wrong economic models. Indians should have been 10 times richer – but are not.

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Opinion

How England’s dying industrial towns became the West’s largest jihad factory

Praveen Swami -
Malik Faisal Akram had no known affiliation with jihadist groups. Ideas that led him to take hostages in a Texas synagogue seeped into his mind almost by osmosis.
File photo of M.S. Dhoni and Virat Kohli.

When Kohli took over from Dhoni a template was set. Now BCCI has set India back two decades

Representational image | Women stitch the Indian national flag for Independence Day, at Khadi Gramodyog Samyukta centre, Hubli | PTI

Raise Truth Army to fight India’s troll army, but go beyond just fact-checking

Economy

NTPC looks to coal imports to avoid new power crunch

Rajesh Kumar Singh -
India’s largest electricity producer is aiming to secure cargoes starting from April, when power consumption in India typically surges on summer cooling demand.

Defence

File photo of IAF drone seen flying in Leh on 18 Nov 2020 | ANI

Indian firm gets foothold in prized global ‘kamikaze’ and armed drones market

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Global demand for loitering munition & armed drones saw a jump after Azerbaijan was able to defeat superior Armenian armed forces in 2020 with the help of these systems.

National Interest

Illustration by Soham Sen | ThePrint

Read my lips, I’m hurting, says Pakistan’s National Security Policy. What it means for India

Shekhar Gupta -
The new policy is mostly chaff, but it reveals the most inward-looking Pakistan in 3 decades. It needs breathing space, and is realising loss of stature and friendship with US.

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