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Yendluri Sudhakar’s Telugu short stories, translated into English by K Purushotham, focus on injustices meted out on account of caste.
Both the OECD and Thomas Piketty recommend that South Africa double down on wealth redistribution to allay its economic woes.
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Senator Juan Ponce Enrile cannot be wrong. How can he be wrong when he rewrote the entire National Internal Revenue Code (NIRC) in 1996? Since the Comprehensive Tax Reform Program (CTRP) was chopped up in several pieces, the Senator rewrote the Code so that the reforms can be understood as a whole.
The inefficiency of the Gini coefficient 17 Jan 2021 Disparity: The gap between rich and poor is glaring, but the author believes the tool used to measure it requires a rethink. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G) Ask just about anyone in South Africa about the Gini coefficient and they will either stare at you blankly or tell you only two things: one, the Gini coefficient is the measure of income inequality in society and two, that South Africa is the most unequal society in the world based on that measurement. South Africa’s poor Gini coefficient rating is often cited as justification for many of t...