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CEO Pay Takes A Hit In 2023, Yet Stands At 290 Times Average Workers Salary
The analysis suggests that exorbitant CEO pay, driven by their leverage over corporate boards rather than performance.
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Wealth Of World's Top 1% Grew By $42 Trillion Over The Past Decade: Oxfam
The world's richest one per cent increased their fortune by $42 trillion over the past decade, which is nearly 34 times more than the entire bottom 50 per cent of the world's population, according to a new analysis by Oxfam.
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Income Inequality Up In 60% Of Nations With IMF, World Bank Loans: Report
A massive 60 per cent of all countries receiving grants or loans from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank are witnessing high or increasing income inequality, an analysis by Oxfam International has revealed.
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Inequality Rising Since 2000s, Top 1% In India Holds 40% Wealth: Study
Inequality in India has skyrocketed since the early 2000s, with the income and wealth share of the top 1 per cent population rising to 22.6 per cent and 40.1 per cent, respectively, in 2022-23, according to a working paper.
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"Remarkable...": UN Hails India Life Expectancy, Per Capita Income Rise
In 2022, average life expectancy in India increased to 67.7 years and gross national income (GNI, per capita) has increased to $6951, a United Nations report has said.
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Congress Peddling Misinformation: BJP On Rising Income Inequality Charge
The BJP on Monday slammed the Congress for "peddling misinformation" over alleged rising economic inequality and said the average income of people has increased as the country is on an "upward trajectory" under the Modi government.
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"India Shows The Way": SBI Chairman On Sustainable, Inclusive Development
Sustainable development and resolution of income inequalities via financial inclusion measures like Jan Dhan accounts will be key as India bids to become a $5 trillion economy, SBI's Dinesh Khara told NDTV.
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India Weighs Higher Capital Gains Tax to Curb Inequality: Report
India is preparing an overhaul of its direct tax laws to replace a byzantine matrix of rules and help Prime Minister Narendra Modi reduce income inequality if he returns to power next year, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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Earning Rs 25,000 Per Month? You Are In India's Top 10%: Report
Highlighting a vast income distribution disparity in the country, the latest State of Inequality in India Report by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister shows a bleak picture, with gaps that need to be addressed so that the goals of social progress and shared prosperity are realised.
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Opinion: Why Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget Is Risky
The pandemic has deepened inequality by boosting the profits and incomes of a tiny section of firms and households.
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Over 16 Crore More People Forced Into Poverty In 2 Years Of Pandemic: Report
The first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic saw incomes of 99 per cent of humanity fall and over 16 crore people were forced into poverty even as the world's ten richest men saw their fortune more than double to USD 1.5 trillion (over Rs 111 lakh c
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India Among Top Nations In Inequality, 1% Hold 22% Income: Report
India stands out as a "poor and very unequal" country, with the top 1 per cent of the population holding more than one-fifth of the total national income in 2021 and the bottom half just 13 per cent, according to a report.
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Determined To Fulfill Duty, Virus Fight "Top Priority": Japan's New PM
Japan's new prime minister Fumio Kishida pledged to combat the pandemic with fresh stimulus and fight income inequality after lawmakers voted him leader of the world's third-largest economy on Monday.
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South Korea's 'Generation MZ' Leads Rush Into the 'Metaverse': Find Out Why
The "metaverse" may be a futuristic prospect for most of the world, but it's increasingly a reality in South Korea where soaring home prices and income inequality have enticed the so-called Generation MZ, or Gen MZ, into alternative online worlds.
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Lockdown Made India's Billionaires 35% Richer, Lakhs Lost Jobs: Oxfam
The coronavirus pandemic has worsened existing income inequalities between India's super-rich and its crores of unskilled, and often unemployed, men and women, non-profit group Oxfam said Monday in a report to be tabled at the World Economic Forum at Switzerland's Davos.
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CEO Pay Takes A Hit In 2023, Yet Stands At 290 Times Average Workers Salary
The analysis suggests that exorbitant CEO pay, driven by their leverage over corporate boards rather than performance.
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Wealth Of World's Top 1% Grew By $42 Trillion Over The Past Decade: Oxfam
The world's richest one per cent increased their fortune by $42 trillion over the past decade, which is nearly 34 times more than the entire bottom 50 per cent of the world's population, according to a new analysis by Oxfam.
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Income Inequality Up In 60% Of Nations With IMF, World Bank Loans: Report
A massive 60 per cent of all countries receiving grants or loans from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank are witnessing high or increasing income inequality, an analysis by Oxfam International has revealed.
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Inequality Rising Since 2000s, Top 1% In India Holds 40% Wealth: Study
Inequality in India has skyrocketed since the early 2000s, with the income and wealth share of the top 1 per cent population rising to 22.6 per cent and 40.1 per cent, respectively, in 2022-23, according to a working paper.
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"Remarkable...": UN Hails India Life Expectancy, Per Capita Income Rise
In 2022, average life expectancy in India increased to 67.7 years and gross national income (GNI, per capita) has increased to $6951, a United Nations report has said.
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Congress Peddling Misinformation: BJP On Rising Income Inequality Charge
The BJP on Monday slammed the Congress for "peddling misinformation" over alleged rising economic inequality and said the average income of people has increased as the country is on an "upward trajectory" under the Modi government.
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"India Shows The Way": SBI Chairman On Sustainable, Inclusive Development
Sustainable development and resolution of income inequalities via financial inclusion measures like Jan Dhan accounts will be key as India bids to become a $5 trillion economy, SBI's Dinesh Khara told NDTV.
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India Weighs Higher Capital Gains Tax to Curb Inequality: Report
India is preparing an overhaul of its direct tax laws to replace a byzantine matrix of rules and help Prime Minister Narendra Modi reduce income inequality if he returns to power next year, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
-
Earning Rs 25,000 Per Month? You Are In India's Top 10%: Report
Highlighting a vast income distribution disparity in the country, the latest State of Inequality in India Report by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister shows a bleak picture, with gaps that need to be addressed so that the goals of social progress and shared prosperity are realised.
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Opinion: Why Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget Is Risky
The pandemic has deepened inequality by boosting the profits and incomes of a tiny section of firms and households.
-
Over 16 Crore More People Forced Into Poverty In 2 Years Of Pandemic: Report
The first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic saw incomes of 99 per cent of humanity fall and over 16 crore people were forced into poverty even as the world's ten richest men saw their fortune more than double to USD 1.5 trillion (over Rs 111 lakh c
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India Among Top Nations In Inequality, 1% Hold 22% Income: Report
India stands out as a "poor and very unequal" country, with the top 1 per cent of the population holding more than one-fifth of the total national income in 2021 and the bottom half just 13 per cent, according to a report.
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Determined To Fulfill Duty, Virus Fight "Top Priority": Japan's New PM
Japan's new prime minister Fumio Kishida pledged to combat the pandemic with fresh stimulus and fight income inequality after lawmakers voted him leader of the world's third-largest economy on Monday.
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South Korea's 'Generation MZ' Leads Rush Into the 'Metaverse': Find Out Why
The "metaverse" may be a futuristic prospect for most of the world, but it's increasingly a reality in South Korea where soaring home prices and income inequality have enticed the so-called Generation MZ, or Gen MZ, into alternative online worlds.
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Lockdown Made India's Billionaires 35% Richer, Lakhs Lost Jobs: Oxfam
The coronavirus pandemic has worsened existing income inequalities between India's super-rich and its crores of unskilled, and often unemployed, men and women, non-profit group Oxfam said Monday in a report to be tabled at the World Economic Forum at Switzerland's Davos.
