Socio-economic divides in 2021

Along expected lines, the post-COVID economic data point to a widening of three pre-existing divides: The gender divide, increasing asymmetries between the incomes of the rich and the poor, and an increasing rural-urban digital divide. As each of these inequalities are subjects that need targeted policy interventions, the focus in this post is on the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Report 2021, wherein India has slipped to the 112th ranking among 153 countries.

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