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About Jayati Ghosh

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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Europe could make good use of a new SDR allocation

by Jayati Ghosh on 1st March 2021

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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Reform of global taxation cannot wait

by Jayati Ghosh on 7th December 2020

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 debt deluge

by Jayati Ghosh on 19th March 2020

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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Our shrinking economic toolkits

by Jayati Ghosh on 22nd October 2019

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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The exploitation time bomb

by Jayati Ghosh on 18th July 2019

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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How to tax a multinational

by Jayati Ghosh on 30th April 2019

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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Science and subterfuge in economics

by Jayati Ghosh on 6th March 2019

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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