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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

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.

Europe could make good use of a new SDR allocation

Jayati Ghosh 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.

Reform of global taxation cannot wait

Jayati Ghosh 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.

The Covid-19 debt deluge

Jayati Ghosh 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.

Our shrinking economic toolkits

Jayati Ghosh 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.

The exploitation time bomb

Jayati Ghosh 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.

How to tax a multinational

Jayati Ghosh 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.

Science and subterfuge in economics

Jayati Ghosh 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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