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Jayati Ghosh

Jayati Ghosh is professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and executive secretary of International Development Economics Associates. She is a member of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation and of the UN secretary-general’s High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism.

Jayati Ghosh

Let’s count what really matters

Jayati Ghosh 22nd June 2022

Tracking four alternative economic indicators would provide a very different view of comparative performance than GDP.

Control the vampire companies

Jayati Ghosh 23rd May 2022

Jayati Ghosh highlights the vicious circle between spiralling wealth and corporate political influence.

Who should be responsible for emissions reductions?

Jayati Ghosh 21st March 2022

The wealthy are the biggest greenhouse-gas emitters, Jayati Ghosh writes, yet carbon taxes hit the poor hardest.

The biggest killer of pandemic times: inequality

Jayati Ghosh 24th January 2022

‘Inequality’ is never the official cause of a death. But, writes Jayati Ghosh, that doesn’t mean it’s not.

The price increases that matter for the poor

Jayati Ghosh 18th January 2022

Rich-country governments are not adequately addressing the causes of food-price inflation—the world’s poor continue to suffer as a result.

The feminist building-blocks of a just, sustainable economy

Jayati Ghosh 15th November 2021

Jayati Ghosh finds in a UN Women report a blueprint for an economy which serves the public—rather than the other way around.

Time is running out for a new agricultural model for the global south

Jayati Ghosh 20th September 2021

Jayati Ghosh is baffled that at a coming food summit the UN should partner with the World Economic Forum, not its own specialist agencies.

Apocalypse or co-operation?

Jayati Ghosh 12th August 2021

The perfect storm of Covid-19 and climate change, and resulting economic damage, will likely trigger much more social and political instability.

The G7’s role in the world

Jayati Ghosh 21st June 2021

Jayati Ghosh unpicks the G7 summit in England and finds an anachronistic coalition failing to meet global responsibilities.

Next steps for a people’s vaccine

Jayati Ghosh 10th May 2021

Ending the pandemic requires not only an intellectual-property rights waiver but scaling up knowledge transfer and public production of vaccine supplies.

Covid-19 in India—profits before people

Jayati Ghosh 27th April 2021

Jayati Ghosh explains why more than a third of a million Covid-19 cases are being reported in India daily—and what that says about our world.

Europe could make good use of a new SDR allocation

Jayati Ghosh 1st March 2021

Jayati Ghosh begins a new Social Europe column by pricking Europe’s conscience on its pandemic-related responsibilities towards the developing world.

Reform of global taxation cannot wait

Jayati Ghosh 7th December 2020

The huge fiscal pressures occasioned by the pandemic mean global tax-gaming by corporations and the wealthy is a luxury we can no longer afford.

The Covid-19 debt deluge

Jayati Ghosh 19th March 2020

The Covid-19 crisis may have set the stage for a debt meltdown long in the making, starting in the Asian economies on the front lines.

Our shrinking economic toolkits

Jayati Ghosh 22nd October 2019

For four decades, mainstream economists and policymakers have been wedded to fixed dogmas. Their blind belief in fiscal discipline threatens the very stability of societies.

The exploitation time bomb

Jayati Ghosh 18th July 2019

Worsening economic inequality in recent years is largely the result of policy choices that reflect the political influence and lobbying power of the rich.

How to tax a multinational

Jayati Ghosh 30th April 2019

For too long, multinational corporations—and digital firms in particular—have used existing rules to avoid paying taxes in countries where they do much of their business.

Science and subterfuge in economics

Jayati Ghosh 6th March 2019

A big argument of neoliberal economics is that unemployment is reduced by labour-market deregulation. Lack of robust evidence doesn’t seem to get in the way. Mainstream economics has a tendency to decide on some ‘established’ conclusions, and then hold to them, notwithstanding all evidence to the contrary. This is bad enough, but what may be […]

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