Meet Raksha Kumar, who'll dissect economic inequalities in India - one of the most unequal countries in the world - and try to offer solutions for building a fairer place for its billion and a half people. In this first episode Raksha investigates the news that India has apparently become the fourth largest economy in the world. Really? And what does that mean for the average Indian? Plus, Raksha goes to the UN's fourth financing for development conference in Seville, southern Spain and separates the silver lining from the dark clouds.

Hosted by Raksha Kumar and co-produced with Naomi Fowler, sound design by Leo Schick, featuring Deputy Associate Editor of the Indian Express Udit Misra and Jayati Ghosh Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and of The Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation

Music credit: Night in India by Elvenheim

Transcript of the show: https://podcasts.taxjustice.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Transcript_Episode1.pdf (some is automated and may not be 100% accurate)

Further Reading:

Why India is the third-largest economy, not fourth or fifth, by Udit Misra https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-economics/india-third-largest-economy-10033187/

Financing for Development for Whom? FfD4 preaches development but reeks of privilege and repression https://apwld.org/financing-for-development-for-whom-ffd4-preaches-development-but-reeks-of-privilege-and-repression/ (Asia Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development)

Our verdict on FfD4: Job not yet done https://www.eurodad.org/ffd4_job_not_yet_done from Eurodad

The “Compromiso de Sevilla’: A Hope for Tax Justice—Now Governments Must Deliver https://www.icrict.com/corporate-taxation/the-compromiso-de-sevilla-a-hope-for-tax-justice-now-governments-must-deliver/ from The Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation

Trump’s walkout fumble is a golden window to push ahead with a UN tax convention https://taxjustice.net/2025/02/05/trumps-walkout-fumble-is-a-golden-window-to-push-ahead-with-a-un-tax-convention/ from the Tax Justice Network

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