KEY TRENDS • Oxfam India's 2023 India Supplement report on poverty and inequality in India reveals that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Following the pandemic in 2019, the bottom 50 per cent of the population have continued to see their wealth chipped away. By 2020, their income share was estimated to have fallen to only 13 per cent of the national income and have less than 3...
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Top 10% of Urban Indian Households has 7,517 Times the Assets of the Bottom Decile
The average value of assets (AVA) of the top ten percent of urban households in India is more than seven thousand five hundred times greater than what the bottom ten percent owns. The AVA of the top decile was Rs. 1.5 crores, while the lowest decile owned an average of Rs. 2,000 of assets. The data is part of the All India Debt and Investment Survey - 2019, the survey for...
More »Oct-Dec Quarter GDP slows to 4.4% as manufacturing shrinks - Tanya Krishna
Financial Express India's gross domestic product in the October-December, 2022 quarter is estimated to have grown at 4.4 percent year-on-year, slowing down from the previous two quarters, and a tad slower than expected, mainly as manufacturing activity took a hit, and favourable base faded away, government data showed on Tuesday. India’s GDP at constant prices in Q3 of FY 2022-23 is estimated at Rs 40.19 lakh crore, the Ministry of Statistics...
More »9 of World's 10 most air-polluted cities in South Asia, deadly air causes 2 million premature deaths - World Bank
Urgent action needed to curb deadly air pollution in South Asia A new report by the World Bank states that Nine out of the world’s 10 cities with the worst air pollution are in South Asia. Ambient air pollution is a public health crisis for South Asia, not only imposing high economic costs but also causing an estimated 2 million premature deaths each year. The health impacts of air pollution range...
More »India’s 20 Largest Profit Generators Are Earning 80% Of the Nation’s Profits - Nandita Rajhansa, Saurabh Mukherjea
A decade ago, this figure was around 40%. This is leading to an increasingly polarised stock market - Marcellus/The Wire The United Payments Interface and the digitisation of business activity in India are one of the several factors driving an exponential surge in the concentration of corporate profitability in India. Improvements in Transport infrastructure (e.g., the highway network has doubled over the past decade), the introduction of GST (in 2017) and new...
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