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The coming decade requires an urgent effort toward the establishment of mechanisms that ensures an egalitarian re-distribution of the tech-revolution
To reduce inequality of income, the government should increase taxes rather than reduce taxes.
Despite the bottom half of the carbon pyramid facing the unequal impact of climate change, India’s current climate policies continue to favour the t
China has drawn worldwide attention in recent years for its rapid digitalisation, which happens to overlap with the three focul points of Digital Indi
The problems India is facing are hard to solve in the short term and only incremental changes can be undertaken in the five-year term of any government at the Centre. As per an Oxfam survey, India is a highly unequal country on all counts. There are inequalities in wealth, income and consumption as well as structural inequalities of opportunity, region and social groups.
The Brazilian economy is in a new period of transition. Its challenges today are of tax incentives in order to steer foreign investments towards the domestic shores and curbing rising inequality and urban-rural divide.
Empirical data implies that increase in the income of lower income group directly translates into an increase in consumption. Therefore, the governmen
There is a lot of disturbing news regarding the Indian economy today which is likely to spoil the outlook for 2012. One of them is regarding the rise in inequality.
The new normal would be about reinventing the realms. How would the cities be further planned and developed in the future?
India's new GDP data speaks of robust growth (6.9%) rather than of policy paralysis and industrial decline in 2013-14. But even Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian is not convinced by the new data. Because, other indicators do not seem to corroborate the high rate of growth, especially when imports actually declined last year.
High inequality is likely to undermine democracy, promote corruption and cronyism. Reduction of inequality on the other hand will lead to faster reduc
As women bear the brunt of the rising income inequality, the need for a positive policy change has become even more pronounced
अलग अलग क्षेत्रों में महिलाओं और पुरुषों के बीच अंतर को प�
On 1 February, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will make her most important political economy speech
Our economic model is putting unsustainable pressures on our planetary boundaries. We can’t afford to continue ignoring how economic growth is gener
Mitigating the huge divide between the rich and the poor is a major challenge for the government as it will require a big increase in public investmen
The zero sum game witnessed during this pandemic has deepened cleavages and widened inequality across the world
The data reveals clear inequality in maternal health across parliamentary constituencies in terms of maternal mortality rate and the uptake of service
With Awami League winning the 4th consecutive term, this re-election opens up interesting implications for the country’s economic future
This paper presents a status report of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) on two crucial development parameters—inequality and poverty—that have a significant bearing on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs; especially SDG-1 and SDG-10). The paper tracks the origins and movements of absolute and relative poverty, and income and wealth inequality in the BRICS economies over time, highlights the associated cha
Severe inequality in the allocation of public finance is a primary reason for rural impoverishment.
Due to unprecedented global crises, progress in bridging the gender divide has stagnated
There is a need to fix the BRICS, by altering growth strategies, reducing external dependence, securing domestic demand and investments, providing jobs to the unemployed, and aiming at lowering untenable inequality.
The juxtaposition between the death toll in Asia and the West as well as government response teams has been stark.
India needs to structurally tackle the gender inequalities in job opportunities available in the renewable energy sector for the country to achieve a
With the onset of unprecedented technological and digital advances in today's time, India witnesses a widening inequality between the digital haves a
It is crucial for CVE responses to more meaningfully incorporate gender perspectives and address structural gender inequality as an essential part of
Angola is rich in natural wealth, with massive petroleum and diamond deposits across its territory. Most of its people, however, continue to live in poverty. Since its independence in 1975, Angola has had a tumultuous journey: from being a war zone, to becoming a poster child for Chinese engagement in the continent, and since 2015, declining to its current state where the challenges are so massive—negative growth rates, high external debt, risi
शहरी नियोजकों को शहरीकरण में अनइक्वल पॉवर डायनैमिक्स अर�
Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) is a targeted fiscal instrument that several developing countries have cemented into their growth plans. GRB is used to ensure that policy prescriptions to alleviate gender inequality translate into outputs by linking them to budgetary allocations. Although the concept was introduced in India, Bangladesh and Rwanda at around the same time (the early 2000s), the three countries have followed different routes and a
Urban India is mimicking the social and cultural structures of inequality thereby also creating fault lines for future conflicts
The citizenship amendment act paves the way for thousands of stateless Nepalis to become citizens, but women continue to be considered second-class ci
Monetising the skills of the female workforce will address gender inequality and boost the 'Make in India' campaign.
By studying India’s consumption patterns over time, effective policies can be undertaken to boost India’s economic growth
Perhaps, the most integral step towards inclusivity in the fourth industrial revolution is trust.
By addressing challenges related to education, healthcare, and gender inequality, India can harness its human potential to drive economic progress and
India’s leap into the services and IT sector without first going through the appropriate growth models and methods of educating and skilling its ent
The pandemic showed us how digital divides worsen inequality - this project shows they’re not inevitable
The government needs to adopt a more nuanced gender-responsive budgeting to deal with gender inequality in India.
City planning and development agencies must take steps to resolve problems faced by vulnerable urban populations
India’s job challenges is about more than creating enough jobs.
