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Pakistan's economic mismanagement pushes poverty, inequality to record hig
Updated : 2 weeks, 6 days ago IST
: Pakistan's poverty rate has soared to 29%, the highest in 11 years, while income inequality has climbed to its worst level in nearly three decades, exposing deep cracks in the country's economic management. According to a government survey, nearly 70 million Pakistanis now live below the m
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Pakistan's cost-of-living crisis forces families to spend two-thirds on su
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Pakistan's latest household survey shows families now spend nearly two-thirds of their income on food and utilities due to high inflation. Spending on education and health has sharply declined, while reliance on remittances has increased, highlighting rising inequality and shrinking purchasi
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RJD MP Manoj Kumar Jha questions Govt on Hunger Index, Income inequality a
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Manoj Kumar Jha has raised concerns about India's growing economy versus the persistent issues of hunger and income inequality. As India becomes the fourth-largest economy, Jha questions whether this growth is translating to progress and prosperity for every
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"Income Inequality Affects Economic Growth" says Indian Economic Associati
Updated : 10 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], April 29: Leading economists from across the country gathered at the Vels Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies (VISTAS) for a two-day national seminar on "Indian Economic Progress Towards Achieving Sustainable Development Goals", hosted in colla
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Modi government taking India into middle-income trap, income inequality ha
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Noting that India's GDP growth for 2024-25 is expected to be 6.4 per cent as per government data, the Congress on Thursday said that the Modi government is taking India into the "middle-income trap, which will make us uncompetitive, underproductive, and unequal".
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Income inequality in Pakistan: Top 10 pc earn 42 pc, bottom 50 pc earn onl
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
According to a World Inequality Database report, the top 10 per cent of Pakistani households earn 42 per cent of the country's income, while the bottom 50 per cent earn only 13 per cent. This means that the wealthiest households in Pakistan earn more than three times the income of the poores
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Study finds income inequality may harm child's performance in maths, but n
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], January 15 (ANI): A new comprehensive study has found that children of houses of income inequality might have a hard time in mathematics, but not in reading.
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COVID-19 new variant, inflation to derail global economic recovery in 2022
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [United States], January 12 (ANI): Global economic growth will drop sharply from 5.5 per cent in 2021 to 4.1 per cent in 2022 and dip further to 3.2 per cent in 2023 due to fresh threats from COVID-19 variants and a rise in inflation, debt and income inequality, the World Bank sai
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MoS Bharati Pravin Pawar chairs World AIDS Day celebrations
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 1 (ANI): Aligning with the theme of World AIDS Day 2021 "End Inequalities. End AIDS. End Pandemics", the Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Bharati Pravin Pawar emphasized on the need to focus and tackle gender inequalities, discrimination again
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Tackling income inequality might boost vocabulary of low-income children
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
California [US], July 25 (ANI): Parenting deficiencies have long been blamed for the vocabulary gap between low-income children and their more affluent peers. Now new research implicates the economic context in which parenting takes place, which in other words means the wealth gap.
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Tackling income inequality could boost low-income children's vocabulary, n
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 20 (ANI): While parenting deficiencies have long been blamed for the word gap, new research from the University of California, Berkeley, implicates the economic context in which parenting takes place- in other words, the wealth gap.
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Chinese villagers facing widening income inequality despite modernisation
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 14 (ANI): Beijing's push to modernise rural areas of China claiming to improving lives and reducing poverty, Chinese villagers across the nation are facing an even wider gap in income inequality against their urban counterparts as an economic opportunity in the countrys
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