The LMI Blog
India’s middle class: Drivers of Inequality?
21 May 2014
by Nandita Gupta
The middle class in India has been growing since the colonial rule. The land reforms (which removed the highest classes and handed more control to middle level and …
Pikettymania, what implications for India and Brazil ?
17 May 2014
by Gerry Rodgers
Thomas Piketty’s recent book on Capital in the 21st Century is creating waves in Europe and the United States. He shows the central role of the accumulation of wealth in the long term dynamics of inequality, in particular arguing that when the…
Comparing Brazil and India: Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Manmohan Singh
17 May 2014
by Gerry Rodgers
In the 1980s the Brazilian economy went through deep depression and high inflation. In 1993, Fernando Henrique Cardoso was appointed Finance Minister and succeeded in eliminating inflation and stabilizing the economy.
Trade Unions and Labour Market Inequality
06 Feb 2014
by Taniya Chakrabarty
There is a common opinion that trade union activities have been limited to only the formal sector which has given rise to the phrase “labour aristocracy”, but in reality more than sixty percent of trade union membership is from the informal sector.
Labour Market Inequality in Brazil and India: A Comparative Study
06 Feb 2014
by Gerry Rodgers
Inequality has been rising in India and declining in Brazil in recent years. Early findings of the research at IHD point to some of the factors which drive these different trends. For instance, in the Brazilian labour market the wage gap…
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