Why are the rich leaving India?
1 year, 6 months ago

Why are the rich leaving India?

Live Mint  

India is expected to lose 6,500 high net-worth individuals, worth $1 million or more this year, according to Henley and Partners, an advisory firm on investment-linked visas. Last year, India lost 7,500 HNWIs, the 3rd highest after China and war-wrecked Russia. The report said “these outflows are not particularly concerning as India produces far more new millionaires than it loses to migration". This year’s union budget reduced the surcharge for those earning more than ₹5 crore, cutting the top rate of tax from 42.7% to 39% under the new tax regime.

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Number of millionaires leaving India will reduce in 2024: Report
6 months ago

Number of millionaires leaving India will reduce in 2024: Report

Hindustan Times  

India will lose fewer millionaires to migration in 2024, compared with the previous two years, according to The Henley Private Wealth Migration Report 2024. Representational Around 4,300 millionaires are likely to exit the country in 2024 compared with 5,100 in the previous year, according to the report. The UAE is likely to be the largest beneficiary, gaining 6,800 millionaires in …

Why India Isn’t the New China
11 months ago

Why India Isn’t the New China

Live Mint  

China’s economy is struggling, but another Asian giant, neighboring India, is suddenly squarely on investors’ and manufacturers’ radar. India’s age-dependency ratio—a measure of the burden of child and elderly care on households—has fallen to 47 in 2022 from 82 in 1967, according to the World Bank. Only a third of India’s female working-age population was in the labor force in …

Rich India: Will India become a wealthy nation by 2047?
11 months, 1 week ago

Rich India: Will India become a wealthy nation by 2047?

The Hindu  

Rich India: Will India become a wealthy nation by 2047? She has served as a member of several international boards and commissions, including the UN High-Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs, the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All, and the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism. She is the recipient of several …

Quick edit: Exit of the rich
1 year, 6 months ago

Quick edit: Exit of the rich

Live Mint  

The latest estimates of the number of rich Indians leaving the country don’t have much for India to cheer about. According to the Henley Private Wealth Migration Report 2023, as many as 6,500 high net-worth individuals are expected to leave India this year. Though down from 7,500 in 2022, this would still be the world’s second highest, after China, which …

Explained: Why are 6,500 super-rich expected to leave India in 2023?
1 year, 6 months ago

Explained: Why are 6,500 super-rich expected to leave India in 2023?

Firstpost  

The estimate comes courtesy of the Henley Private Wealth Migration Report 2023. Indian Express quoted Sunita Singh-Dalal, Partner, Private Wealth & Family Offices at Hourani, as saying that “prohibitive tax legislation coupled with convoluted, complex rules relating to outbound remittances that are open to misinterpretation and abuse, are but a few issues that have triggered the trend of investment migration …

Why are India’s poorest people being left behind?
1 year, 10 months ago

Why are India’s poorest people being left behind?

Al Jazeera  

On Tuesday, February 7 at 19:30 GMT: India’s BJP-led government says its final budget before a general election in 2024 will spur economic growth, but opposition politicians are among critics who say it fails to address ever-deepening income and wealth inequality highlighted by anti-poverty groups. But it does not include the re-introduction of a wealth tax on the rich that …

Number Theory: How rich are India’s richest – and how poor are the rest?
2 years, 9 months ago

Number Theory: How rich are India’s richest – and how poor are the rest?

Hindustan Times  

The scourge of wealth inequality is a global phenomenon. In a recently released working paper “The sky and the stratosphere: concentrated wealth in India during the lost decade”, we studied the changes in the household wealth distribution between 2012 and 2018. Official data suggests that the Gini coefficient of per adult household wealth in India fell from 0.718 in 2012 …

Number of Indian billionaires rose to 142 in 2021
2 years, 11 months ago

Number of Indian billionaires rose to 142 in 2021

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The number of Indian billionaires grew from 102 to 142, while 84 per cent of households in the country suffered a decline in their income in 2021, which was also a year marked by tremendous loss of life and livelihoods, according to non profit Oxfam India's latest report published on Monday. It indicates that the collective wealth of …

Explained: How a raging pandemic is widening India's wealth gap
4 years, 3 months ago

Explained: How a raging pandemic is widening India's wealth gap

India Today  

Ever since India gained Independence, the country has traversed a wave of ups and downs to finally become a global powerhouse over the last five years. In India, the wealth gap has been rising sharply during the ongoing pandemic as previous levels of income inequality were already high in the country. A January 2020 study by rights group Oxfam India …

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