Poverty and Unemployment
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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Rural sanitation did not feature on the investment horizon during the first five plan periods as reflected in its negligible funding share. However, it received prominence from the Sixth Plan (1980-85) onwards amid the launch of the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation decade in 1980, says the 51st Report of Standing Committee on Rural Development related…
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KEY TRENDS • Oxfam India’s 2023 India Supplement report on poverty and inequality in India reveals that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Following the pandemic in 2019, the bottom 50 per cent of the population have continued to see their wealth chipped away. By 2020, their income share was estimated to have fallen…
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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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