No, India Is Not the Fourth Most Equal Country. Here’s the Real Data Whichever way one looks at the data, the picture is clear: India is a highly unequal country, and inequality is worsening. Surbhi Kesar✍️ thewire.in/economy/india-…

No, India Is Not the Fourth Most Equal Country. Here’s the Real Data. ⁦Surbhi Kesar⁩ : “whichever way one looks at the data, the picture is clear: India is a highly unequal country, and inequality is worsening” thewire.in/economy/india-…

Several major Indian newspapers – including The Hindu, Business Standard, TOI and IE – carried a story claiming that India is the fourth most equal country in the world, attributing the finding to a recent World Bank report. 1/3 thewire.in/economy/india-…

Today !!! Join the book launch of Decolonising Economics! eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-…

Looking forward to this very much. To have this conversation with colleagues and friends at SALDRU and UCT, since Rhodes Must Fall decolonising movement has been an important inspiration for us, will be an important place for us to learn and expand our own understanding.

Thanks for everyone for coming to the launch of our book Deolonizing Economics, with Devika Dutt Carolina Alves Surbhi Kesar! We had such a great time engaging with students, academics and the general public. And thanks to MarxMemorialLibrary for hosting 🤗 hetecon.net/2025/07/03/dec…

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is Ihsaan Economics at Surrey who works on topics related to labor + political economy, particularly in South Africa

🆕 The gender pay gap in South Africa: Firms, formality and churn Today on VoxDev, Ihsaan (Economics at Surrey) & Leila Gautham (University of Leeds) discuss the dynamics of the gender pay gap in South Africa: voxdev.org/topic/labour-m…

This week's Terms of Trade is inspired by a reading of satendra kumar & Snigdha Poonam 's work and paraphrases Neruda to make a point hindustantimes.com/india-news/ter…

NEW POST: Farwa Sial unpacks what the rise of private equity for the global South means, especially when it comes to indebtedness, public markets, and the public subsidy function of development finance. Locusts? Vampires? Have a read 👇 developingeconomics.org/2025/07/23/pri…

#Breaking: Bombay High Court while dismissing a petition filed by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) seeking to protest the "Genocide" in Gaza by Israel, asked the petitioner to "show patriotism for the citizens of our own country first." #BombayHighCourt #Palestine

A mother hugs her child who cries as he suffers from severe malnutrition as a result of the Israeli blockade of baby formula, food, water, medicine and all basic life supplies from the Gaza Strip. In the past 24 hours, 9 Palestinians have died of forced starvation and

#HTNumberTheory | India’s labour market: stable outside, churn within — Part 1 hindustantimes.com/editors-pick/i… (✍️Rosa Abraham & Surbhi Kesar)

We find that 35% of the migrant workers we surveyed had NONE OF THE 11 SIR DOCUMENTS specified by Election Commission of India . They all risk losing voting rights. Anindita Adhikari

Congratulations Surbhi Kesar Rosa for unpacking your excellent and important technical work on key employment transitions for the policy ecosystem. Must Read: for all interested in policy actions to address Indias daunting prosperity challenges

The first of a two part series based on my paper with Surbhi Kesar understanding employment transitions in the Indian economy epaper.hindustantimes.com/Home/ShareImag…