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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
TopicIncome Inequalities

Topic: Income Inequalities

Want to reduce income inequality? Make richer friends, this US study says

The study shows that poor children who grew up with wealthy friends had, on average, 20 per cent higher incomes later in life than other poor kids.

Loading daughter with chores while son studies? It sets her back for life, finds UK study

Time girls in India and other countries spend doing unpaid household work contributes to gender pay gap & lower share of workplace participation when older, finds study by UK researchers.

Jaithirth Rao is wrong. Material wealth and economic apartheid are not Positive Economics

Entrepreneur Jaithirth Rao's recent attack on Oxfam report on inequality ignores the fact that only the rich are getting richer in this beleaguered Indian economy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

On Camera

Air India crash report shows an institutional reform of AAIB and aviation ministry is in order

The civil aviation ministry could have recognised the enormity of the Air India crash and prepared the AAIB and its investigating team for its sensitivities.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.