Please click here and here to access the main findings of the World Bank report titled Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022: Correcting Course (released in October 2022). — Kindly click here to access the Malcolm Adiseshiah Memorial Lecture titled ‘Understanding Inequality’ (released in 2022) delivered by Prof. Reetika Khera. Please note that Prof. Reetika Khera, IIT Delhi, and Prof. Avijit Pathak, JNU were selected for the…
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The World Inequality Report 2022 presents the most up-to-date and complete data on the various facets of inequality worldwide as of 2021: global wealth, income, gender and ecological inequality. The analysis is based on several years’ work by more than one hundred researchers from around the world, and is published by the World Inequality Lab. The data…
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Please click here to read the World Bank flagship report entitled Global Economic Prospects (GEP) (released in January 2021). — Please click here, here, here and here to access the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2020 (released in July 2020). — According to the report entitled Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2019: Illuminating Inequalities (released in July, 2019), which has been produced by Oxford Poverty and Human Development…
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According to the paper entitled Wealth Inequality, Class and Caste in India 1961-2012 by Nitin Kumar Bharti, published on 20th November, 2018, World Inequality Lab, Paris School of Economics (please click here to access): • The present paper produces long-term wealth inequality series of India using survey data and correcting the top wealth distribution using the Forbes millionaires data….
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The key findings of the report entitled Global MPI 2018 report (please click link1, link2, link3,link4, link5 and link 6 to access) are as follows: • India’s multidimensional headcount ratio (H) viz. the proportion or incidence of people (within a given population) who experience multiple deprivations has reduced from 54.7 percent to 27.5 percent during the last 10 years viz. between 2005-06 and 2015-16. • The…
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As per the World Bank report entitled Ending Extreme Poverty, Sharing Prosperity: Progress and Policies (released in October 2015), authored by Marcio Cruz, James Foster, Bryce Quillin, and Phillip Schellekkens, please click here to access: Indian scenario • India was home to the largest number of poor in 2012, but its poverty rate is one of the lowest…
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As per the new World Bank report entitled: Addressing Inequality in South Asia (published in January 2015), if standard monetary indicators are to be taken at face value, South Asia has modest levels of inequality. Gini coefficients for consumption per capita range between 0.28 and 0.40 depending on the country, much lower than in China, Mexico,…
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As per the Report of the Expert Group to Review the Methodology for Measurement of Poverty (also called the Rangarajan Committee Report on Measurement of Poverty 2014), which was submitted to the Government of India in June 2014 (Please click here to download): • Based on the analysis presented in the Report by Rangarajan Committee, monthly per capita…
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The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) was created using a method developed by Sabina Alkire, OPHI Director, and James Foster, OPHI Research Associate and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at George Washington University (2011). The Global MPI 2014 is an index of acute multidimensional poverty that covers 108 countries. It directly measures the nature…
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