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World Inequality Report 2026: India’s growth model is leaving the 'middle' behind
December 15, 2025 11:42 am
New data from the World Inequality Lab and India’s Access (In)Equality Index reveal a structural crisis — rising elite wealth, a hollowed-out middle class, and stalled investment in human capability
Why the Poor Don’t Kill Us – Manu Joseph’s darkly witty autopsy of India’s uneasy peace amid inequality
November 09, 2025 2:49 pm
In this sharp and unsettling collection, Joseph asks why inequality endures, and finds the answer in habit, hypocrisy and hope.
Knowledge Nugget: World Bank’s revised poverty line and India — A must-know for UPSC Exam
July 03, 2025 12:41 pm
Recently, the World Bank came out with an update on the methodology and level of its poverty line. What does this update say about poverty in India? What is the poverty line? Here's what you need to know. Also, go 'Beyond the Nugget' to know about the Global and National Multidimensional Poverty Index.
Measuring poverty shouldn't be about calories. India needs a thali index
July 01, 2025 6:10 pm
In 2023-24, upto 40 per cent of rural population and 10 per cent of urban population could not afford two thalis a day, indicating that levels of food deprivation are much higher than implied by poverty estimates
Declining poverty, and the data that shows it
June 09, 2025 7:16 am
Extreme poverty in India is estimated to have declined from 27.1 per cent in 2011-12 to 5.3 per cent in 2022-23 as per latest World Bank data. Data must serve as a valuable input for policy
Poverty fell significantly last year. Much of it was driven by GDP growth
May 29, 2025 11:54 am
Our analysis shows that most of the poor are concentrated around the poverty line — this makes poverty more manageable
Year Ender 2024: How did India rank on global social indexes this year
December 31, 2024 8:01 am
India's Global Societal Index Rankings 2024: <As we approach 2025 soon, here's a look at India’s performance and rankings in various global social indexes announced in 2024. From assessments of poverty to measures of happiness, here’s how India ranked.
With new consumption survey, the need for new indices
March 12, 2024 10:02 am
The survey will lead to fresh poverty estimates. It will also have implications for inflation and monetary policy
In Viksit Bharat, rural real wages are in decline
January 22, 2024 10:32 pm
The litmus test of employment hinges on real wage rates, and we have seen from the government data that in rural areas, real wages have had negative growth in the last five years of the Modi-2 period. This needs urgent attention and further research to create more employment-intensive growth processes
India’s multidimensional poverty rate down to 11.28% in 2022-23 from 29.17% in 2013-14
January 16, 2024 6:47 am
According to the estimated share of MPI poor in 2013-14 and 2022-23, Bihar recorded a 53 per cent drop from 56.3 per cent share of MPI poor in 2013-14 to 26.59 per cent in 2022-23.
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