India’s poor pay way more tax in proportion to what the rich in the country pay – by way of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), said Mukulika Banerjee, Professor of Social Anthropology at the London ...

While India talks about shining cities, booming startups and billion-dollar companies, a huge part of the nation remains unseen. This side of India is filled with people working day and night, ...

As Indian parliamentary elections approach, politicians’ promises resting on uplifting economic status of the poor will get more assertive and aggressive. As these promises become louder, headlines ...

In 1997, Palaniappan Chidambaram wrote a budget of which middle-class Indians still wistfully dream. It slashed income and corporate taxes, encouraged foreign investment, and drove up the stock market ...

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Poverty reduction in India is showing progress. Over 2015–2021, the World Bank reported a decrease in poverty from 60.9 to 46.5 per cent and India's National Institution for Transforming India ...

The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby. “We were so frightened,” said 56-year-old ...

India knows how to count the poor. From ration cards to multi-decade surveys such as the National Sample Survey, there are sophisticated systems to track deprivation – who’s getting by, who’s falling ...

The good news is India is the fastest-growing major economy in the world, on course to overtake Germany and Japan in the next five years in aggregate GDP. It will become the third-largest global ...

Stolen coal worth $1.5 million recovered last year Lack of jobs and skills pushes locals to scavenge coal Pickers use the fuel to cook, sell it cheaply to middlemen JHARIA/CHENNAI, India, Feb 8 ...

India’s poor pay way more tax in proportion to what the rich in the country pay – by way of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), said Mukulika Banerjee, Professor of Social Anthropology at the London ...