India's Human Development Index ranking improved to 130th in 2023, driven by increased life expectancy and progress in education and income. The nation's HDI value has risen significantly since ...

Meanwhile, the bottom 10% income threshold fell further behind, dropping from 0.37 to 0.33 times that of the bottom 50% income threshold. Together, this indicates growing income disparity in the ...

To paraphrase the "often myth of worsening inequality" in India, the research report from the Economic Department of SBI has analysed the income disparity curves of assessment years (AY ...