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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

Google drops engineering residency after protests over 'inequities'

Google last year pledged to improve retention for underrepresented employee groups.

Best of BS Opinion: Accounting gains, games promoters play & more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Friday

India, China and US driving global growth: World Bank's David Malpass

David Malpass also expressed concern over growing inequality due to the Covid-19 pandemic

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

US President Joe Biden targets gender inequality in latest orders

The council will include a staff of four, three of whom will hold the title of special assistant to the president

Agenda for Stockholm+50

As we approach Stockholm+50, we are looking at an increasingly inequitable world; where poverty and marginalisation are growing

IMF boosts world growth outlook as Covid-19 vaccines outweigh uncertainty

The pandemic is exacerbating inequality, with close to 90 million people likely to fall into extreme poverty in 2020 and 2021, the fund said

Looking back, and forward: How economies and economics changed in 10 years

Even as both India and the world struggle to re-build after Covid-19, they face slow-burn problems that could develop into full-blown crises, writes T N Ninan

Azim Premji calls Covid-19 a magnifying glass for structural injustices

Says the pandemic has been a sharp reminder that the economy is a part of society and that human well-being matters in all its dimensions equally

Citigroup to set aside over $1 billion to combat racial wealth gap

Citi's statement comes amid a broader re-think of racism in the United States in recent months

Coronavirus reversed fragile progress on gender equality: UN chief

Although input prices rose at the sharpest pace in nearly two years, firms have cut prices of their goods for four months to boost demand

Working from home raises questions about US inequality - Fed panel

Surveys show that most want to keep working at home at least part-time even after the pandemic is over, and a recent survey by the Atlanta Fed shows firms expect that as well

Pandemic response in SE Asia must address rising inequalities: UN Report

UN has commended governments in southeast Asia for acting swiftly to stem the most serious health consequences of Covid-19 but highlighted the need to curb rising inequalities across the region

Covid-19 exposing inequalities; world at 'breaking point': UN chief

Antonio Guterres calls out 'lies that free markets can deliver health care for all, fiction that unpaid care work is not work'

Heads of state, chiefs to discuss Covid-19, climate at UN Leaders Summit

More than 20 UN agencies, funds and programmes will also showcase their work with the business sector

Why India's inequality is a policy choice, argues Capital and Ideology

In the debate over inequality, caste has played a key role. Instead, an ambitious agrarian reform, backed by a more redistributive tax system would have been more helpful, argues Thomas Piketty

India needs basic income scheme to make lockdown work, says Thomas Piketty

The French economist said that India has the potential to become the global democratic leader of the 21st century if it manages to address the issue of inequality

Inequality in the US-II

Analysis of education data confirms it has worsened

To tackle inequality, need to create jobs with reasonable income: Murthy

These USD 500 per year translates into around USD 1.5 per day or Rs 100 per day, in which these people have to eat, take care of health, educate their children and pay rent, among others, Murthy said