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Rishabh Kumar

University of Massachusetts Boston
Rishabh.Kumar@umb.edu

Rishabh Kumar is an Assistant Professor of Economics at The University of Massachusetts Boston. Previously, he taught at California State University San Bernardino and worked in government for New York City’s Department of Finance. He received his PhD in Economics from The New School for Social Research, New York in 2017.

He is interested in the distribution of income and wealth within, and between, countries; and writes about current and historical inequality/poverty, economic development and political economy.

Posts by Rishabh Kumar

आज कितने भारतीय गरीब हैं?

वर्ष 2022-23 के पारिवारिक उपभोग व्यय सर्वेक्षण के तहत जारी एक तथ्य पत्रक के बाद भारत में गरीबी पर बहस फिर से शुरू हो गई है। इस लेख में घटक और कुमार उल्लेख करते हैं कि शोधकर्ताओं में आम सहमति है कि देश...

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Determining how many Indians are poor today

Poverty debates in India have seen a revival since the release of a fact sheet from the 2022-23 household consumption expenditure survey. In this post, Ghatak and Kumar note that the general consensus...

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Focussing on inequality of opportunity to sustain India’s growth

India has seen a four-fold increase in average incomes since 1990, which has reduced the share of the population living in absolute poverty from 45% to 20%. Yet, there are large and widening inequalit...

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What do we know about the wealthy in India? A pre-liberalisation analysis

Academic attention on the metamorphosis and concentration of wealth has so far excluded poor countries. This column analyses wealth distribution in India, post-independence and pre-liberalisation. It...

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