Are night lights on earth captured by satellites from outer space a good way to measure inequality?

Praveen Chakravarty in conversation with Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor, after the release of Q2 GDP Data.

Income inequality in India through the MD-to-worker pay ratio in 20 companies; 15 from the private sector and 5 from the public sector.

The ‘3-3-3’ puzzle is nothing but a theory that the three richest states in India are three times as rich as the three poorest states.

Whether the GST has the potential to exacerbate the growing economic divergence in the country.

Within most of the large states, the economic gap between richer and poorer districts is widening, not narrowing.

The increasing disparity in economic divergence among the states of India, drawing parallels with the situation in the antebellum US that had led to the US Civil War.

Praveen Chakravarty and Vivek Dehejia's article on economic divergence between the rich and poor states in India cited in the Entry Tax Case judgement by Justice Bhanumathi...

The article highlights the need for greater federalism since the priorities of poor states like Bihar or Madhya Pradesh will be vastly different from that of states like Tamil Nadu