A 2017 report on India in the New York Times indicated that 564 million of its citizens lack toilets, indoor or outdoor. What a tragedy. Only it gets worse. Women in the country are forced to go ...

A new study from the World Inequality Lab finds that the present-day golden era of Indian billionaires has produced soaring income inequality in India—now among the highest in the world and starker ...

India’s affluent class expands beyond metros, driving premium consumption even as inequality remains deeply entrenched ...

While hundreds of millions of workers and rural poor in India struggle to make ends meet and some two hundred million people suffer from malnourishment, the income share of India’s wealthiest 1 ...

New Delhi: When economist Vamsi Vakulabharanam asked a professor in China about social class inequalities in the nation, he was told “there are no classes in China”. He then spent a month in the ...

Cash seizures, welfare promises and inequality are shaping voter choices as five states, TN, WB, Assam, Kerala and Puducherry ...

Recent studies reveal a misrepresentation of income inequality in India, challenging the commonly accepted pre-tax Gini ...

When 41-year-old Nisha Kotwal was a resident trainee doctor in India's Maharashtra state 14 years ago, her parents would call her before every shift to ask if she had reached the hospital safely.

Economic liberalization in India has shifted the emissions burden from more equal and developed states to less equal ones. This needs to change. Climate negotiators, researchers, and activists ...

A new report exposes the stark reality of land inequality in rural India, where a small percentage of households control a disproportionate share of land, leaving millions landless and vulnerable.

A fisherman colony alongside commercial buildings in the Indian city of Mumbai, now Asia’s billionaire capital. Credit - Dhiraj Singh—Bloomberg/Getty Images A new study from the World Inequality Lab ...

A 2017 report on India in the New York Times indicated that 564 million of its citizens lack toilets, indoor or outdoor. What a tragedy. Only it gets worse. Women in the country are forced to go ...