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

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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