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POULTRY farming and livestock keeping plays a crucial role in the livelihoods of many villagers in Kisarawe District, Coast ...
Time to bridge income inequality gap The weakening of India’s middle-income groups signals a worrying trend towards a hollowing-out of the economic centre By Amit Kapoor Mukul Anand ...
Addressing income inequality in India demands more than aggregate economic growth. As Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz has noted, middle-class erosion threatens both political stability and ...
Juhi Chawla: The 1984 Miss India who had a dream run from the late 1980s to the early 2000s, especially opposite the then upcoming Shah Rukh Khan, has returned to the streaming medium and her fans ...
The gap between the rich and the poor has been growing in the U.S. for decades — and now, the U.S. has a higher level of income inequality than much of the rest of the world. The real-world ...
GST and income tax revenues now amount to Rs. 26.16 trillion ($302.43 billion). As compared to this, corporate taxes are estimated at a mere Rs. 10.82 trillion ($125 billion).
Read Appendix A for a classification of these nations.) While concerns about economic inequality are widespread in all the countries surveyed, people in middle-income nations are especially likely to ...
In our 36-country survey, we asked respondents how large a problem various types of inequality are in their nation, including the gap between the rich and the poor, unequal rights for men and women, ...
Moreover, India’s limited ICT skills, particularly among marginalised communities, could worsen income inequality as AI technology advances. A recent study by Chakradhar and PK Choudhary (2024) ...
The most common tool economists use to measure different types of inequality is the Gini Coefficient. This is usually used to measure income inequality but can be used to measure wealth inequality as ...
Some have criticized such a conspicuous display of wealth amid worsening income inequality in India, where almost half the population lives on less than $3.60 — the poverty line defined by the ...