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Differences in educational attainments can in turn widen job market inequalities, with ‘meritorious’ children from privileged castes and social backgrounds gaining better paying jobs. (MINT_PRINT)

School closures are hurting less privileged students disproportionately

3 min read . Updated: 06 Jul 2021

Across sectors, India’s largest companies have been able to limit revenue losses, and in many cases, even grow market-share as cash-strapped smaller firms struggled. (iStock)

The inequality among companies reflected in wage cuts, too

3 min read . Updated: 29 Jun 2021

Projections made by the 15th Finance Commission, prior to the second wave show that richer state economies were likely to experience much faster growth in the next few years compared to poorer states that are hamstrung by low revenues and high debt (AP)

Covid is taking an unequal toll on poor states

3 min read . Updated: 22 Jun 2021

Govt’s data apathy harming pandemic response: Experts

3 min read . Updated: 21 Jun 2021

Roughly eight in ten Indians lie below the global median income level while all Americans lie above it, shows research by Branko Milanovic, one of the foremost experts on global inequality.

How the pandemic is widening inequalities among nations

3 min read . Updated: 15 Jun 2021

Companies and consumers have both adapted better this time around

Despite second wave, India leads emerging markets league table

3 min read . Updated: 20 May 2021

One big reason for that lies in the lockdown rules this year which allow greater relaxations for industrial activity and movement of goods than last year. Photo: Mint

How far will the second wave dent India’s economic recovery?

4 min read . Updated: 29 Apr 2021

Representational image. India may however find it difficult to hold onto the top rank in the coming months. (AP)

India rises to the top of EM league tables, displacing China

4 min read . Updated: 21 Apr 2021

The ability of states to borrow will in turn determine their ability to raise capex spending.

How the pandemic crunched state budgets in India

3 min read . Updated: 15 Apr 2021

Will covid-19 halt India’s economic recovery once again?

3 min read . Updated: 31 Mar 2021

A worker transports sugarcane on a bullock cart to a sugar factory in the Jalana district of Maharashtra, India, (Bloomberg)

India second-most attractive emerging market after China

3 min read . Updated: 24 Mar 2021

Union minister for finance and corporate affairs Nirmala Sitharaman. (File photo) (HT_PRINT)

Budget 2021: The biggest challenges facing Nirmala Sitharaman, in 10 charts

5 min read . Updated: 31 Jan 2021

Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman (ANI)

How India could spend its way out of the Great Recession

4 min read . Updated: 12 Jan 2021

Photo: Bloomberg

India’s biggest firms have retained employees, rest have seen massive cuts

3 min read . Updated: 10 Dec 2020

Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint

Did inflation-targeting kill India’s growth story?

5 min read . Updated: 07 Sep 2020

The tussle between India’s treasury and its central bank is as old as the central bank itself. (Photo: Mint)

Needed: A new relationship contract between RBI and govt

6 min read . Updated: 22 Aug 2020

While India’s ‘big five’ state economies may be similar in size, they are not all at the same stage of development once we consider their per-capita incomes.

The geography of growth in India

4 min read . Updated: 08 Aug 2020

The secret sauce behind Asia’s growth miracles

4 min read . Updated: 01 Aug 2020

Fixing India’s broken growth barometer key to revival

5 min read . Updated: 25 Jul 2020

Growth matters so much firstly because it directly impacts the average income levels

How growth reshaped India’s destiny, and why we need an encore

5 min read . Updated: 20 Jul 2020

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