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Jayati Ghosh

Jayati Ghosh is professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is co-chair of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation and a member of the UN secretary-general’s High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism and the World Health Organization’s Council on the Economics of Health for All.

Jayati Ghosh

Taking inequality seriously—and tackling it seriously

Jayati Ghosh 24th July 2023

Rising inequality is a challenge for the multilateral system, Jayati Ghosh writes, which must first measure it properly.

Why the Paris financing summit failed

Jayati Ghosh 14th July 2023

The June summit promised to catalyse a revolution in climate finance but concluded without a single firm commitment.

The fertiliser conundrum

Jayati Ghosh 20th June 2023

Making the global food system more sustainable and equitable is hugely complex and involves difficult trade-offs.

The discreet (but dubious) charm of tax treaties

Jayati Ghosh 15th May 2023

Jayati Ghosh writes that, as with much else, bilateral tax treaties binding rich and poor countries are not equal partnerships.

How not to deal with a debt crisis

Jayati Ghosh 16th January 2023

Jayati Ghosh warns against historically disastrous approaches to the sovereign-debt crisis hitting low- and middle-income countries.

The monetary tightening trap

Jayati Ghosh 17th November 2022

The over-reliance on interest-rate increases will likely lead to economic disaster in low- and middle-income countries.

Grappling with power imbalances

Jayati Ghosh 31st October 2022

In a world of interlocking crises, Jayati Ghosh finds an antidote to despair in the potential of mobilisation for a new eco-social contract.

Effective pandemic response must be truly global

Jayati Ghosh 26th July 2022

The world needs a pandemic preparedness and response strategy built on equitable and representative decision-making.

Dealing with inflation, really

Jayati Ghosh 25th July 2022

Jayati Ghosh bemoans the economics profession’s inability to think beyond crude analyses of inflation—and crude policies to stem it.

Achieving Earth for all

Jayati Ghosh 14th July 2022

Because the changes to achieve sustainable wellbeing for all are so big, they require determined social movements.

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.

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