LSE Professor Mukulika Banerjee said that the poor pay far more in terms of the proportion of their income in taxation.

A viral Instagram reel by Australian content creator Jeremy Franco (@jeremy.franco) has sparked debate online for his take on India’s visible contrasts between wealth and poverty. In the video, he ...

India knows how to count the poor. From ration cards to multi-decade surveys such as the National Sample Survey, there are sophisticated systems to track deprivation – who’s getting by, who’s falling ...

While the publication of India’s first consumption figures in over a decade has generated much excitement, the official data appear to have been chosen to align with the government’s preferred ...