The author sincerely thanks P G Babu, Aditya Bhattacharjea, Prem Kumar, and Mohan Kumar for their feedback and valuable ...

This article examines the relationship between economic growth and income inequality in India. Empirical findings seriously challenge some popular prevailing notions that higher inequality has been an ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are ...

This paper is a first attempt to track the inflation rates of the distribution of Indian households based on consumption weights of different fractiles of rural and urban households from 2015 to 2023.

Welfare schemes cannot be subsidised by the exploitation of front-line workers. Accredited social health activists (ASHAs) in Kerala have been on strike at the state’s capital over the last one month ...

In the context of a recent incident of a young chartered accountant succumbing to work pressure and the ongoing debate on weekly working hours for India’s workforce, this article discusses the ...

Classifying ecosystem services under five groups, the issues raised by ecological economists on sustainable scale, use of marginal analysis, and distributional equity are considered. The need for ...

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-led coalition has emerged victorious in the recent Jharkhand assembly elections, indicating that public memory against perceived assaults upon protective legislation is ...

In honour of the late Mr. Dhruba Narayan Ghosh — a superb civil servant, a distinguished corporate leader, an innovative banker, a builder of institutions, a natural leader, a scholar, a columnist and ...

Popular sitcoms from the early 2000s normalise upper-caste Hindu identity as the cultural default, feeding into contemporary Hindutva-aligned victimhood discourses in Indian media and politics. The ...