Jayati Ghosh from New Delhi – Authors profile, articles and posts

Economy and ecology | 11.06.2021

The G7's tax reform could entrench global inequality

While the G7 tax compromise has been hailed as ‘historic’, it would do little for countries in the Global South. But changes are still possible

Democracy and society | 28.04.2021

Why Covid-19 is running amok in India

In India, more than a third of a million Covid-19 cases are being reported daily. It's an extreme example of the privileging of profits over [...]

Work and digitalisation | 16.04.2021

Changing employment in the age of labour platforms

The Covid-19-induced exponential growth in digital labour platforms forces us to circle back to basic questions about the nature of work

Economy and ecology | 22.03.2021

Credit-rating agencies could derail economic recovery

The world's major private agencies are preventing low-income countries from investing in the recovery. We urgently need an independent public [...]

Foreign and security policy | 09.03.2021

Europe could make good use of a new SDR allocation

As the G20 just agreed on a new allocation of special drawing rights, the IMF’s reserve asset, Europe should transfer its shares to poor countries

Foreign and security policy | 22.02.2021

Europe’s ambitious parochialism

While the EU's response to Covid-19 expresses solidarity within Europe, it's falling short of delivering international solidarity

Foreign and security policy | 29.01.2021

How Biden can boost the global economy

A people's vaccine, corporate tax, climate action. A few simple steps Biden could take for a more equitable global recovery

Democracy and society | 21.12.2020

How the green revolution is harming Africa

How current efforts to improve food security in Africa are increasing small farmers’ dependence on global agribusinesses

Democracy and society | 14.12.2020

Farmers vs. the Indian state

Contrary to what Narendra Modi's government thinks, the huge open-air farmers’ protests outside Delhi may not fizzle out

Future of social democracy | 23.11.2020

Vaccine apartheid

An every-country-for-itself approach is irrational during a pandemic. And yet, that is exactly what many countries have done

Future of social democracy | 07.10.2020

A multicoloured New Deal

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

Global | 24.08.2020

Male leadership malpractice

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

Global | 13.08.2020

Still no care for care workers

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

Asia | 18.03.2020

The COVID-19 debt deluge

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

Economy and ecology | 20.11.2019

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 countries

Global | 25.10.2019

Economics' tribal thinking

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

Global | 23.09.2019

Getting serious about the SDGs

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

Global | 20.08.2019

The IMF’s latest victims

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

Global | 30.07.2019

The exploitation time bomb

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

Asia | 31.05.2019

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 worried

Global | 22.04.2019

How to tax a multinational

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

Asia | 16.01.2019

India’s Great Wall of Equality

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

Democracy and society | 28.12.2018

Who should control India’s central bank?

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

Global | 17.12.2018

The political roots of falling wage growth

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

Global | 17.09.2018

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

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