New Delhi, Dec. 12 -- India's economic rise may make global headlines, but a new set of numbers reveals a stark reality beneath the surface: a tiny slice of Indians is racing ahead, while half the country is stuck at the bottom with little to no movement, said the World Inequality Report 2026 released on Friday.
The report, foreword by Jayati Ghosh and Joseph E Stiglitz, explores new dimensions of inequality that define the 21st century: climate and wealth, gender disparities, unequal access to human capital, asymmetries of the global financial system and territorial divides.
Fresh data shows the top 10 per cent now corner nearly 58 per cent of all national income, leaving the bottom 50 per cent to share just 15 per cent. Even more striki...