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Jayati Ghosh

Jayati Ghosh

New Delhi

Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and Member of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation.

Articles

A multicoloured New Deal

With extreme poverty rising and climate breakdown accelerating, we need to mobilise for a green, purple and red New Deal

Male leadership malpractice

The US, Brazilian and Indian leaders' authoritarian personalities have led to the world’s highest numbers of Covid-19 [...]

Still no care for care workers

First heralded, then forgotten. With the coronavirus still spreading rapidly, frontline workers are at greater risk than [...]

The COVID-19 debt deluge

The pandemic may have already set the stage for a debt meltdown, starting in Asia's emerging and developing [...]

The growing threat of water wars

Less than 3 per cent of all our water is fresh. With global warming, this already leads to tensions in and between [...]

Economics' tribal thinking

During the last four decades, mainstream economists and politicians have become intellectually isolated. This needs to [...]

Getting serious about the SDGs

By addressing three problems in the international economic system, world leaders could help to put the SDGs back on [...]

The IMF’s latest victims

The International Monetary Fund’s bizarre belief in ‘expansionary austerity’ would be laughable if it were not so [...]

The exploitation time bomb

A self-reinforcing pattern of high profits, low investment, and rising inequality demands a Global Green New Deal

The real victims of China’s trade patterns

Trump has railed against China’s massive trade surpluses. But actually China’s neighbors have far more reason to be [...]

How to tax a multinational

The idea of a global corporate tax on multinational corporations' profits gains traction worldwide

India’s Great Wall of Equality

How five million women formed a human chain in India's Kerala state to demonstrate for gender equality

Who should control India’s central bank?

The Indian government is challenging the Reserve Bank of India's independence for all the wrong reasons

The political roots of falling wage growth

It's neither trade nor technology that causes low wages. It's the political project of neoliberalism

The real problem with free trade

Current global rules have enabled a few large firms to capture an ever-larger share of wealth created from trade