Jayati Ghosh

Professor of Economics University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Jayati Ghosh is one of India's best-known economists and a frequent commentator and writer about a wide range of issues.

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Economics and the Developing World
Economy of India
India
Asian Political Economy
Gender and Care Work

Biography

A prolific columnist and commentator, Jayati Ghosh is of India's best-known economists with a wide range of research interests, including globalization, international trade and finance, employment patterns in developing countries, macroeconomic policy, issues related to gender and development, and the implications of recent growth in China and India. In 2021, Ghosh was appointed by United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres to a new high-level advisory board on effective multilateralism.

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University of Cambridge

Ph.D.

Economics

University of Cambridge

M.Phil.

Economics

Jawaharlal Nehru University

M.A.

Economics

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COP climate conferences have become 'meaningless rituals,' says economist

CBC  radio

2024-11-19

It's time for the United Nations to completely re-think its annual climate change conference, says economist Jayati Ghosh. Ghosh, a frequent advisor to the UN, is one of several prominent climate experts and former UN and world leaders who have signed an open letter calling on the organization to completely overhaul the annual event that brings delegates from member countries together to tackle climate change.

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Africa’s Debt Crisis Has ‘Catastrophic Implications’ for the World

The New York Times  online

2024-08-28

Jayati Ghosh comments in an article about “Africa’s debt crisis. She notes that the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank encouraged poor and middle-income countries to embrace Wall Street and seek private loans overseas to fund development in the 2010s, resulting in considerable amounts of debt.

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Political Unrest Worldwide Is Fueled by High Prices and Huge Debts

The New York Times  print

2024-07-05

Jayati Ghosh comments on global political unrest caused by high prices and huge debts. “Terrible things are happening even in countries where there aren’t protests, but protests kind of make everybody wake up,” she says.

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Weaponizing data against democracy

The Jakarta Post

Jayati Ghosh

2025-02-17

Jayati Ghosh writes that last week’s visit to the White House by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi underscored the striking similarities between him and President Donald Trump. Ghosh says both govern through the politics of division and intolerance, designed to consolidate power and enrich oligarchic capitalists, with control over data at the heart of the effort.

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New Hope for India’s Democracy

Project Syndicate

Jayati Ghosh

2024-06-10

Jayati Ghosh writes that there is new hope for India’s democracy after the recent election. Ghosh says that while Prime Minister Narendra Modi was given a third consecutive term, his ruling BJP party’s failure to secure a simple majority in the lower house of parliament means Modi will have to rely on several unpredictable allies to promote his legislative agenda.

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Why private corporations subvert states

Bangkok Post

Jayati Ghosh

2023-12-12

“Straight out of a dystopian novel,” is how Jayati Ghosh, describes the current scenario in Honduras in which various private corporations have sued the government for the right to establish their own jurisdictions within the country.

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