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Tackling inequality

Govt must make the right interventions in the Budget

America's new aristocracy

Book review of THE 9.9 PERCENT: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture

UN faces $100-trn shortfall in fight against climate change, inequality

Adding the costs of financing the global transition to a low-carbon economy to limit global warming, and total funding out to 2050 comes in at $200-$220 trillion

The ultimate scarcity: Overall consumption has stagnated over four years

Economic performance is also affected if large numbers of people are out of work, or at such low levels of income as to force under-consumption, writes T N Ninan

Did inequality increase during pandemic? Wait for more data to get answers

It might be in the nature of economic modernization and industrialization for inequality to at first increase and then decline.

Living in 'interesting times': Dickensian illusion and Orwellian nightmare

The world has too many fires to fight - from climate change to a semi-permanent state of medical alert, increasing threat to democracy, global power shifts, and growing inequality - notes T N Ninan

Google drops engineering residency after protests over 'inequities'

Google last year pledged to improve retention for underrepresented employee groups.

Best of BS Opinion: Accounting gains, games promoters play & more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Friday

India, China and US driving global growth: World Bank's David Malpass

David Malpass also expressed concern over growing inequality due to the Covid-19 pandemic

The absent voices of development economics

Development economics focuses on improving the well-being of billions of people in low-income countries, but the Global South is severely underrepresented in the field

US President Joe Biden targets gender inequality in latest orders

The council will include a staff of four, three of whom will hold the title of special assistant to the president

Agenda for Stockholm+50

As we approach Stockholm+50, we are looking at an increasingly inequitable world; where poverty and marginalisation are growing

IMF boosts world growth outlook as Covid-19 vaccines outweigh uncertainty

The pandemic is exacerbating inequality, with close to 90 million people likely to fall into extreme poverty in 2020 and 2021, the fund said

Looking back, and forward: How economies and economics changed in 10 years

Even as both India and the world struggle to re-build after Covid-19, they face slow-burn problems that could develop into full-blown crises, writes T N Ninan

Azim Premji calls Covid-19 a magnifying glass for structural injustices

Says the pandemic has been a sharp reminder that the economy is a part of society and that human well-being matters in all its dimensions equally

Citigroup to set aside over $1 billion to combat racial wealth gap

Citi's statement comes amid a broader re-think of racism in the United States in recent months

Coronavirus reversed fragile progress on gender equality: UN chief

Although input prices rose at the sharpest pace in nearly two years, firms have cut prices of their goods for four months to boost demand

Working from home raises questions about US inequality - Fed panel

Surveys show that most want to keep working at home at least part-time even after the pandemic is over, and a recent survey by the Atlanta Fed shows firms expect that as well

Pandemic response in SE Asia must address rising inequalities: UN Report

UN has commended governments in southeast Asia for acting swiftly to stem the most serious health consequences of Covid-19 but highlighted the need to curb rising inequalities across the region

Covid-19 exposing inequalities; world at 'breaking point': UN chief

Antonio Guterres calls out 'lies that free markets can deliver health care for all, fiction that unpaid care work is not work'