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Over a century after Pareto’s observation, the Global South remains trapped in a cycle of concentrated wealth and entrenched ...

AS per the World Bank's 2025 Poverty and Equity Brief, India is now ranked as the fourth 'most equal' country in the world.

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Referring to a World Bank brief, the government has claimed India is world’s ‘fourth most equal country’. What does this ...

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Financial and material security are certainly conducive to human happiness, but they do not appear to be more important than other humanistic factors.

India's poverty rate of 28.1% challenges its claim as one of the most equal societies, Congress urges policy change.

A deeply misleading narrative has recently been doing the rounds — that India is the ‘fourth most equal country in the world’ ...

According to the latest data from the World Bank, India has emerged as one of the most equal societies globally, with a Gini ...

Figures like these are increasingly symbolic, rather than substantive,” CFA notes, pointing to a broader erosion of ...