An urge to show progress must neither use faulty comparisons nor gloss over realities. But a recent press release citing ...

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The government’s assertions conceal a broader reality of increasing income inequality and widespread economic hardship. These ...

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’ ...

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 ...

The Gini coefficient is a statistical measure (between 0 and 1) that quantifies how much a dataset deviates from perfect equality. Zero represents absolute equality; ...

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