Jayati Ghosh

Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

is a member of the Club of Rome’s Transformational Economics Commission and Co-Chair of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation

Putin’s War Is Damaging the Developing World

It is difficult to see any winners in the ongoing war caused by Russia’s irrational and devastating invasion of Ukraine

12 марта 2022 5 мин. 41646

Free the Money We Need

NEW DELHI – The main factor limiting the global recovery is not the much-discussed increase in inflation in advanced economies, which is likely to be transient, but rather the massive inequalities between most rich countries and the rest of the world, with the exception of China

20 февраля 2022 5 мин. 38701

Lifting the Lid on Global Inequality — Блог

Globally, the richest 10% of the population is responsible for more than half of all CO2 emissions

19 декабря 2021 5 мин. 76629

The Rich World's Climate Hypocrisy — Блог

Many people around the world already consider the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow a disappointment

18 ноября 2021 5 мин. 66913

The Real Rot at the IMF

There are many reasons to be critical of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, but the legitimacy crisis now confronting both institutions is not based on any of them. Instead, it has arisen for the wrong reasons, and this is serving to reinforce the real problems that have plagued the Bretton Woods institutions’ functioning

07 ноября 2021 5 мин. 8412

A Wrong Turn for World Bank Concessional Lending

NEW DELHI – The International Development Association is the part of the World Bank that is meant to help the world’s poorest countries

11 сентября 2021 6 мин. 7766

Apocalypse or Cooperation?

NEW DELHI – The Apocalypse is now. That is the glaring message of the perfect storm of COVID-19 and climate change that has now broken. The pandemic is unlikely to end for years, as the novel coronavirus mutates into increasingly transmissible, drug-resistant variants. And the climate catastrophe is no longer “impending” but playing out in real time

15 августа 2021 6 мин. 5763

Where Have All the Asian Tigers Gone?

NEW DELHI – This was supposed to be the Asian century, with the ascent of China being only one – albeit a major – part of the story

25 июля 2021 5 мин. 6519

Schizophrenia at the IMF — Блог

It has taken far too long, but it seems that the International Monetary Fund has finally internalized some hard truths about sovereign-debt reduction

23 апреля 2023 4 мин. 86792

How to Address Global Hunger — Блог

Among the multiple crises that have erupted around the world, the avoidable tragedy of growing hunger receives only fleeting mention

23 октября 2023 5 мин. 79074

Lifting the Lid on Global Inequality — Блог

Globally, the richest 10% of the population is responsible for more than half of all CO2 emissions

19 декабря 2021 5 мин. 76629

Jayati Ghosh on greedflation, debt, corporate taxation, and more — Блог

While inflation in the advanced economies has subsided, this is largely because the forces that fueled the latest bout of inflation – spikes in global food and fuel prices, as well as supply-chain disruptions – have subsided

10 декабря 2023 12 мин. 69316

Let's Count What Really Matters

Despite the well-known problems with using gross domestic product as an indicator of human development, policymakers around the world still seem to be obsessed with it

09 июля 2022 5 мин. 69081

The Rich World's Climate Hypocrisy — Блог

Many people around the world already consider the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow a disappointment

18 ноября 2021 5 мин. 66913

Davos Man Must Pay

The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, has always been more than a little problematic

22 января 2023 4 мин. 56785

India's Great Jobs Challenge — Блог

Any optimism about India’s economic prospects must be tempered by its inability to address two related challenges

15 января 2024 5 мин. 50245

The High Cost of Carbon Pricing

Carbon pricing is all the rage these days, at least in the developed world

23 марта 2023 6 мин. 46455

Why the Paris Financing Summit Failed

The recent Paris Summit for a New Global Financing Pact was touted by its organizers, including French President Emmanuel Macron, as a groundbreaking initiative to forge a «new contract» between the Global North and South that would address climate change and foster sustainable development

15 июля 2023 6 мин. 46242

Fiddling While India's Workers Burn

Kim Stanley Robinson’s prescient science-fiction novel The Ministry for the Future begins with a stark description of a major heat wave in a northern Indian city that kills millions of people

21 мая 2022 5 мин. 37310 Репостов в соцсетях: 55

Putin’s War Is Damaging the Developing World

It is difficult to see any winners in the ongoing war caused by Russia’s irrational and devastating invasion of Ukraine

12 марта 2022 5 мин. 41646 Репостов в соцсетях: 41

SDRs Are the Great Untapped Source of Climate Finance

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai is an opportunity to reflect on what these large, costly, and carbon-intensive international summits aim to achieve

14 декабря 2023 5 мин. 43471 Репостов в соцсетях: 15

The Revolt Against Big Food

Confounding the grim prediction made by the British economist Thomas Malthus in 1798, the world currently produces more than enough food for a population that has increased almost tenfold since then

18 марта 2019 5 мин. 11128 Репостов в соцсетях: 14

Financial deglobalization must come next

After four decades of fostering integration through trade and finance, the global economy has begun a painful process of fragmentation

25 декабря 2022 5 мин. 32710 Репостов в соцсетях: 13

How to Tax a Multinational

NEW DELHI – For some time now, multinational companies (MNCs) have been gaming the rules of the global economy to minimize their tax liability – or even eliminate it altogether. And for some time now, the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT) has argued for the unitary taxation of MNCs. Fortunately, there have been some encouraging recent signs that the idea of a unitary tax is gaining traction

17 апреля 2019 5 мин. 12290 Репостов в соцсетях: 13

Davos Man Must Pay

The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, has always been more than a little problematic

22 января 2023 4 мин. 56785 Репостов в соцсетях: 9

Why the Paris Financing Summit Failed

15 июля 2023 6 мин. 46242 Репостов в соцсетях: 6

The Crisis of India's Oligarchy

Over the past two decades, Indian multi-billionaire Gautam Adani’s close ties to Prime Minister Narendra Modi have helped the Gujarati businessman become Asia’s wealthiest person

26 февраля 2023 6 мин. 38581 Репостов в соцсетях: 3

India’s Great Wall of Equality

Last year was a watershed for gender relations. The #MeToo movement rocked establishments around the world, forcing even powerful men to face public scrutiny for their behavior toward women