Page 2 - Income Inequality

Wealth of richest 98 same as bottom 552 million, says Oxfam report

4% tax on the wealth can fund mid-day meal for 17 years

India 'poor and very unequal' with affluent elite: World Inequality Report

Fruits of economic reforms monopolised by the elite: World Inequality Report

Sharpening income inequalities telling story of 'uneven' recovery: Subbarao

The ex-central bank governor said that earlier expectations of a sharp economic recovery this year have been dashed by the new pandemic wave

The absent voices of development economics

Development economics focuses on improving the well-being of billions of people in low-income countries, but the Global South is severely underrepresented in the field

K-shaped recovery in emerging markets makes rich richer amid Covid-19

The gulf may even get wider if the pandemic leads to deeper recessions in the most disadvantaged countries

Inequality in the US

A growing challenge has gripped society

NSO's junked consumer expenditure survey shows inequality gap declining

Ratio of top and bottom 10% declined sharply to 5% in 2017-18 from 5.9% in 2011-12 in rural areas

How to end the billionaire raj? Thomas Piketty back with 1,200-page guide

The book is a sequel to 'Capital in the 21st Century,' which has sold more than 2.5 million copies in 40 languages since 2013, according to its publisher

Letter to BS: Inequality can have serious inefficiency consequences

Pranab Bardhan's essays are an excellent analysis of inequality

Inequality can be economically harmful, not just ethically distasteful

In the concluding part of the series, the author explores the variety of reasons why inequality can have serious inefficiency consequences

How inequality can lead to inefficient economic outcomes

In the second part of the series, the author says there is evidence that inequality has encouraged excessive risk-taking in the financial sector and might have been partly responsible for the 2007-08

Does inequality matter when poverty is falling?

To moral and political philosophers steeped in the theory of justice, inequality in society may simply be ethically distasteful

Statsguru: Income inequality in India's farm sector explained in six charts

A recent paper explores the contours of income inequality among farmers in India

Reasons why some advanced countries are far more unequal than others

The study of top incomes tends to be US-centric

India's richest 1% grabbed 73% of wealth generation in 2017: Survey

Globally, 82 per cent of the wealth generated last year went to only 1 per cent people

Richest 1% earn 20% of global income

By 2014, the share of the top 1% in total income had risen to 22%, while the richest 10 per cent accounted for 56% of national income

Blunting inequality

India needs reforms that increase opportunities for the poor

The four factors that decide how we feel about income inequality

Linking pay to the share price can also have serious and sudden unfortunate consequences