Jayati Ghosh 
Professor of Economics | University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA, UNITED STATES
Jayati Ghosh is one of India's best-known economists and a frequent commentator and writer about a wide range of issues.
Expertise (5)
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 UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to a new high-level advisory board on effective multilateralism.
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Education (4)
University of Cambridge: Ph.D., Economics
University of Cambridge: M.Phil., Economics
Jawaharlal Nehru University: M.A., Economics
University of Delhi: B.A., Honours in Sociology
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Media Coverage (6)
Why a 1970s-style ‘stagflation’ crisis would hit the world’s poor hard
The Washington Post print
2022-06-09
Economist Jayati Ghosh is quoted in a story about how the world’s poorest will be most impacted by the global economy’s stagflation, a situation where inflation and unemployment rates are high while economic growth is slow.
Prices Soar as Corporate Profiteers & Speculators Drive Inflation; It Hurts the Developing World
Democracy Now! online
2022-04-13
Jayati Ghosh appears on a nationally syndicated radio program to discuss how higher inflation is leading to more extreme poverty and how the Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to commodity price increases.
Watch | 'Pushing Urban Poor to Take Loans is Wrong, Govt Needs to Give Income Support Instead'
The Wire online
2021-07-07
In a video interview, Jayati Ghosh, one of India’s well-known and highly regarded economists says the government’s refusal to provide income support to the unemployed and poor and instead asking them to take government guaranteed loans, which the Chief Economic Advisor has said they can default upon, is a “a terrible terrible mistake”.
Poor Countries Face a Mounting Catastrophe Fueled by Inflation and Debt
The New York Times online
2022-05-17
Jayati Ghosh is quoted in a story about poorer countries facing mounting catastrophe fueled by Russia’s war in Ukraine and an economic slowdown in China.
Why can’t more vaccines be made?
The Economist online
2021-05-10
In a podcast, economist Jayati Ghosh argues that suspending patents on the COVID vaccine will help solve shortages in poorer countries.
Why do the Indian farmer protests matter?
BBC radio
2021-01-21
In an audio interview, Jayati Ghosh discusses why the ongoing protests by farmers against the Indian government matter.
Publications (4)
Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity (BOOK)
New Society PublishersJayati Ghosh et al
2022-09-20
Earth For All is both an antidote to despair and a road map to a better future. Using powerful state-of-the-art computer modeling to explore policies likely to deliver the most good for the majority of people, a leading group of scientists and economists from around the world present five extraordinary turnarounds to achieve prosperity for all within planetary limits in a single generation.
The world may be on a path to collapse. Whether it heads there is for us to decide
The Globe and MailJayati Ghosh
2022-07-15
Jayati Ghosh writes that the world may be on a path to collapse without significant economic and social transformations. A new report produced by the Club of Rome’s Transformational Economics Commission, of which Ghosh is a member, and a team of computer modelers, calls for five major initiatives to eliminate poverty, reduce inequality, empower women, transform food systems, and overhaul energy systems by ‘electrifying everything’.
Three lessons from countries that performed best in tackling Covid-19 challenges
South China Morning PostJayati Ghosh and Mariana Mazzucato
2022-05-25
Professor Jayati Ghosh co-authors an opinion piece naming the three key factors in determining a country’s success in handling the pandemic: long-term investment in public health systems, mission-driven leadership and sufficient fiscal space.
The G7’s role in the world
Social EuropeJayati Ghosh
2021-06-21
Jayati Ghosh unpacks the G7 summit in England and finds an anachronistic coalition failing to meet global responsibilities.
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