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Palakurichi in Tamil Nadu and Palanpur in Uttar Pradesh are two villages that have been visited and studied by scholars multiple times across decades. Here is what the studies observed, and the insights they revealed.
The International Inequalities Institute (III) at LSE is launching the UK Satellite Office of the LIS Cross-National Data Centre in Luxembourg.This new cooperation aims to promote the use of the LIS Databases in the UK and elsewhere and serve as the
How India has become an unequal republic In the wake of covid-19, the ILO estimates that 400 million workers in India are at risk of falling into poverty. (Photo: Getty) Christophe Jaffrelot, Kalaiyarasan A. Inequality based on class, rural-urban metrics and religion has risen. The pandemic will only make things worse The elites who benefited thanks to the public sector, IITs, IIMs in the era of economic planning are the same class of people who benefited the most post the 1990s pro-business reforms Share Via Read Full Story Inequality is broadly found to have risen in India between 1990 (wh...