Jayati Ghosh

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Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, 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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The COVID-19 Debt Deluge
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The COVID-19 Debt Deluge

Mar 16, 2020 Jayati Ghosh sounds the alarm about a looming global financial crisis that could follow from the pandemic.

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The Biometric Threat
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The Biometric Threat

Feb 14, 2020 Jayati Ghosh warns that using unique physical characteristics to verify identity is proving to be a risky bet.

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Why Modi’s Thugs Attacked My University
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Why Modi’s Thugs Attacked My University

Jan 14, 2020 Jayati Ghosh blames recent campus invasions on incitement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist government.

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The Rape of India’s Soul
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The Rape of India’s Soul

Dec 10, 2019 Jayati Ghosh laments the descent of the world's most populous democracy into irrationality, xenophobia, and violence.

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The Growing Threat of Water Wars
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The Growing Threat of Water Wars

Nov 13, 2019 Jayati Ghosh highlights the escalating danger posed by strain on one of our most essential resources.

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The IMF’s Latest Victims
Dec 22, 2019

Instead of such ad hominen attacks on Weisbrot and Arauz, it would be useful if you could point to some specific analysis that you find is wrong, or some facts that are incorrect. Otherwise the comment itself appears to be politically motivated.
The Revolt Against Big Food
Mar 9, 2019

This is a very important suggestion, and fits in with the broader global movement to revitalise taxation strategies while reining in MNCs that have "lost track of their missions". Without such policies, the SDGs cannot be met.
Who Should Control India’s Central Bank?
Nov 14, 2018

Disregarding the unnecessary personal abuse, short factcheck:
1. IDBI is now a commercial bank, not a development bank.
2. NPA problem in Indian banks really started becoming a problem around 15 years ago, NOT 50 years ago. Please drop the lazy habit popularised by PM Modi of describing the past 70 years as a time when noting happened in India other than bad stuff. Hardly anyone is buying this completely false argument anymore.
- vivek iyer Nov 17, 2018
  
  1) IDBI is a bank- it is involved in commerce. All Banks are. This has been true since it was incorporated in 1964. Government ownership was slightly diluted at the time you mention. But, nothing changed. It is a Government owned and controlled institution. It's 'Development' mandate has involved absorbing bad debts and crowding out development.
  2) NPA has been a problem since Nationalization of Banks when they ceased to operate on commercial principles. This was supposed to help Development. It did not. It helped a corrupt casteist cliques. It empowered a criminalised nexus for necessary contract enforcement.
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