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Social Inequality

'Lahiri's law': A mathematical analysis of social divisions

Ashok Lahiri's book is a collection of thoughtful observations on India's economic journey since 1947, spiced up with views on our society and its politics

Updated On: 06 Mar 2023 | 10:09 PM IST

Poverty has fallen, but social inequality in India has increased: Report

The Competitiveness Roadmap for India@100 showed that inequality in India has increased sharply since 2000 in contrast to most of the other countries in the world

Updated On: 14 Sep 2022 | 9:00 AM IST

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

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

Updated On: 08 Dec 2021 | 2:14 AM IST

Living in 'interesting times': Dickensian illusion and Orwellian nightmare

The world has too many fires to fight - from climate change to a semi-permanent state of medical alert, increasing threat to democracy, global power shifts, and growing inequality - notes T N Ninan

Updated On: 23 Jul 2021 | 11:06 PM IST

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

Updated On: 28 Mar 2021 | 9:34 PM IST

Building a resilient school education system

It is imperative that we increase the use of technology to deliver quality education

Updated On: 22 Jun 2020 | 10:06 PM IST

Capitalism reconsidered

Book review of CAPITAL AND IDEOLOGY

Updated On: 09 Mar 2020 | 12:05 AM IST

Inequality in the US-II

Analysis of education data confirms it has worsened

Updated On: 15 Jan 2020 | 2:21 AM IST

Corporates need greater awareness of social inequality

Even the private sector is not entirely immune to the systemic discrimination

Updated On: 26 Jun 2016 | 11:36 PM IST