The trend towards urbanization will pick up pace over the next decade. By 2031, 41 per cent of people will be residents of urban India. The top nine metros and 54 boom towns/niche cities will be signi
The primary objective of the study is to carry out a comprehensive assessment of the WBC including an understanding of the key research areas and definitions, coverage and quality of data.
Beyond macro data, there has been little enquiry into the profile of the indebted farmer households.
An overwhelming majority, 87%, of people living in metros belong to the top two quintiles of India’s income pyramid but even the richest among them consider themselves ‘middle-class’, says ICE survey
Nearly thirty years after India’s Middle Class rose to a considerable size, the decade of 2020s is witnessing an exciting new trend...
7th Pay Commission: Urban households are likely to absorb 64% of the increased amount which will come from the Seventh Pay Commission award, while rural households will get only 36%...
The current state of tenancy laws and the absence of properly documented land records inhibit all attempts to resuscitate the agricultural sector...
The low penetration of health insurance and high health costs expose Indian households, especially those at the bottom of the pyramid, to severe financial shocks, according to fresh...
40% of indebted households in underdeveloped rural areas took loans for social obligations...
Just as non-cash shouldn’t mandatorily be imposed, neither should cash. Why has this not figured on a reform agenda between 2004 and 2014, or much earlier?...
You may think that eating out and taking a holiday trip are some of the simpler pleasures of life, but fresh data on household spending across India shows that an overwhelming majority of families in India may find such pleasures beyond their reach...
This is the season for quoting, and misquoting, Keynes. “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” This is attributed to Keynes, though there is no actual evidence Keynes ever said, or wrote, this...
The discussion on the fall in employment after the November 8 demonetisation relies on anecdotal evidence. It is not backed by data...
Rural households collectively outspent their urban counterparts over the past year, according to data from a nationally representative consumer survey...
A fifth of bread-winners in India are salaried employees, a third are labourers, and a little less than half of bread-winners are self-employed, according...
Middle India is largely rural and uneducated, shows the ‘Household Survey on India’s Citizen Environment & Consumer Economy’...
While the government has announced a number of big impact schemes, the focus should now be on creating linkages between various departments and roping in stakeholders with different types of expertise...
In Indian context, two-wheeler is less of an automobile and more of an enabler which creates a virtuous cycle of increased mobility towards generating better livelihood...
Income, expenditure and saving-related indicators, when taken together, provide holistic insights into levels of household well-being...
Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, with a large population, are pulling down other north Indian states in terms of the general well-being status of households...
