-The Hindu Business Line Ahmedabad: Gender-based discrimination leads to greater neglect of girls, in turn leading to malnourishment and retardation in female children, explained experts at the Jaipur-based IIHMR University recently. Experts and academicians from the university revealed that as much as 56 per cent of girls aged between 15 and 19 suffer from anaemia. Commenting on the National Girl Child Day, Goutam Sadhu, Associate Professor and in-charge, School of Rural Management at...
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India in red zone on transparency list
-The Hindu The annual index of Transparency International issued on Wednesday for 2016 placed India with Brazil and China in the 40th position. A major international index of corruption and transparency has placed India on the watch list for its inability to curb mega corruption scandals and petty bribery. The annual index of Transparency International issued on Wednesday for 2016 placed India with Brazil and China in the 40th position. India’s condition...
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-The Indian Express Protests by the people against Inequality are producing governments that move exactly in the opposite direction We all know that the world is an unequal place, both across and within countries. We also know that across the world, people are expressing their anger and disgust at this Inequality. This is increasingly revealed in extreme and often paradoxical political results. In the US, a vote against the establishment has just...
More »Want to know how India's richest 1 percent are wealthier than the bottom 70 per cent? Read on -Leela Prasad
-The Indian Express Studying micro economies such as Bastar gives us the tools to highlight the rising Inequality between the bourgeoise and proletariat. New Delhi: In Delhi University professor Nandini Sundar’s meticulously researched book, The Burning Forest: India’s War in Bastar, the plight of the adivasis struggling to make ends meet paints a striking picture of the growing wage disparity in the “Maoist state”. Wages paid to the adivasis are strictly controlled...
More »Oxfam's Inequality Report Has Big Flaws, But That Doesn't Narrow India's Stark Wealth Divide -Rukmini S
-Huffington Post Global Inequality data may be skewed by debt, but Indian Inequality really is as bad as it says. Mark Zuckerberg is wealthier than the poorest 40% of Indians, and Mukesh Ambani is worth more than the poorest 30% of Indians, a new report by Oxfam says. While Oxfam might be misstating some facts on global Inequality, the data on Indian Inequality really is that bad. The report, released on Monday morning,...
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