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Rishabh Kumar
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Number Theory: How rich are India’s richest – and how poor are the rest?

A decline in wealth inequality, driven by inflation adjusted losses for the richest 10%, was noticed. If true, this would reverse much of the increase in inequality since the early 1990s (the liberalisation period).

Official data suggests that the Gini coefficient of per adult household wealth in India fell from 0.718 in 2012 to 0.661 in 2018.(REUTERS)
Updated on Mar 16, 2022 09:07 AM IST
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