What's holding Indians back? Parents' income and education levels

The income of Indians is more dependent on their parents' income and educational levels, restricting their chances of rising above the socio-economic strata they are born in, says World Bank report

Indians are more constrained by the circumstances they are born into than the citizens of five other large developing countries–Brazil, China, Egypt, Indonesia and Nigeria–a World Bank report released in May 2018 said. The income of Indians is more dependent on their parents’ income and educational levels, restricting their chances of rising above the socio-economic strata they are born in.

The report, “Fair Progress: Economic Mobility across Generations Around the World”, measured intergenerational mobility by comparing the income and education levels of one generation with those of their parents, and relative mobility