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Referring to a World Bank brief, the government has claimed India is world’s ‘fourth most equal country’. What does this ...

Figures like these are increasingly symbolic, rather than substantive,” CFA notes, pointing to a broader erosion of ...

According to the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) 2022-23, inequality in consumption did decline ...

A deeply misleading narrative has recently been doing the rounds — that India is the ‘fourth most equal country in the world’ ...

Is South Africa truly the most unequal country in the world? This article challenges the widely accepted Gini Coefficient, revealing how it overlooks significant black wealth and social progress, and ...

The change in wealth inequality across Europe between 2008 and 2023 has been mixed across countries. According to a UBS report, it has sharply increased in some places, while showing modest declines ...

India's poverty rate of 28.1% challenges its claim as one of the most equal societies, Congress urges policy change.