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Chief Economist Emeritus at Global Financial Integrity

My article in The Wire which examines the wide gap between India’s income inequality based on incomes reported through household survey and those supplemented by information from other sources. Piketty and others note that adjustments to the household survey based data are required to arrive at actual income inequality given that the upper 1 percent and 10 percent income groups typically understate the incomes they self-report in surveys. The unreported incomes are mainly driven by holdings of black money in tax havens and developed country banks. Thus, India’s actual income inequality is far worse than inequality derived from reported data on incomes.

The Dark Underbelly of India’s Rising Income Inequality

The Dark Underbelly of India’s Rising Income Inequality

thewire.in

Dev Kar

Chief Economist Emeritus at Global Financial Integrity

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There is no path to shared prosperity without strong and sustained investment in high-quality education and healthcare in a socially and politically inclusive India mindful of its rich diversity and history. All artificial barriers to human development need to be demolished systematically. The rule of law needs to be upheld starting with its political class.

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