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Piketty and the middle income trap

That's the rich country inequality problem. But emerging and developing economies such as India are, by definition, not at steady state

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Thomas Piketty’s seminal work “Capital in the 21st Century” empirically establishes a macroeconomic premise driving inequality: that the rate of return on capital (r) tends to be significantly higher than
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First Published: Aug 9 2018 | 11:49 PM IST

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