In survey spanning 36 countries, Pew Research tried to ascertain what people thought were major causes of inequality. In India, more people blamed automation than in most other countries.
Unlike a tsunami or an earthquake or flooding, where death and destruction are violently visible, heatwaves are not considered natural disasters in India.
The long-run income inequality dynamics in India over the period of 1951-2022 has seen an increasing graph of the share of the top 10% population touching nearly 60% in recent years.
3 decades ago, half the people in India had incomes greater than $2.15 a day. Today 7 out of 8 do. Unemployment, though, remains a problem with no easy answer to providing well-paying jobs.
Global warming has had a negative effect on livelihoods, labour efficiency and increased energy consumption — all of which trigger a cycle of adverse climatic impact, the report says.
In a new book ‘Dynamics of difference', put together over a period of four years, economist Narendra Pani attempts to spell out the different levels of inequality in rural India.
The methods of the welfarist reduce the productivity of human effort and thus affect the welfare of the invalids as well as of the able-bodied. This is a greater injustice, BS Sanyal wrote in 1957.
Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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