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Office blocks and residential buildings tower over the notorious slum colony of Dharavi in Mumbai, India.

India dreams of joining the ranks of high-income nations, but persistent inequality makes such goals difficult to achieve –- especially when the country has so few options for closing the gap between rich and poor.

Why India's Options to Reduce Inequality Are Limited

India dreams of joining the ranks of high-income nations, but persistent inequality makes such goals difficult to achieve -- especially when the country has so few options for closing the gap between rich and poor.

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India

Environment, Science & Technology

The 4th Industrial Revolution

India's Own Worst Enemy

In March, the whole of India tuned in to watch as 35,000 farmers -- many barefoot -- traipsed across the western state of Maharashtra for six days on the way to Mumbai, India's financial capital, to register their discontent about the hardships so many feel in the subcontinent's countryside. Aware of a nation's eyes upon it, a chastened state administration gave the marchers an obsequious welcome, rapidly caving into demands for financial concessions. Mollified, the marchers dispersed and returned to their farms, as the rest of the country returned to its daily life, awaiting the next conflict.

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Why India's Options to Reduce Inequality Are Limited

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