Europe could make good use of a new SDR allocation
Jayati Ghosh begins a new Social Europe column by pricking Europe’s conscience on its pandemic-related responsibilities towards the developing world.
politics, economy and employment & labour
Jayati Ghosh taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for 34 years, before joining the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in January 2021. She is executive secretary of International Development Economics Associates and a member of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation.
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Jayati Ghosh begins a new Social Europe column by pricking Europe’s conscience on its pandemic-related responsibilities towards the developing world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Worsening economic inequality in recent years is largely the result of policy choices that reflect the political influence and lobbying power of the rich.
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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.
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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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