Jayati Ghosh

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.

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Put the UN in Charge of International Taxation
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Put the UN in Charge of International Taxation

Nov 21, 2023 Jayati Ghosh, et al. urge support for a developing-country initiative to reform the current unfair and inefficient system.
Jayati Ghosh on greedflation, debt, corporate taxation, and more

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

Nov 7, 2023 Jayati Ghosh argues that advanced-economy rate hikes were both unnecessary and damaging, considers how to reduce the power of agribusiness over the global food system, condemns the Indian government’s manipulation of essential economic data, and more.
How to Address Global Hunger
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How to Address Global Hunger

Oct 12, 2023 Jayati Ghosh explains how price-stabilization measures can address the root causes of rising food insecurity.
Sri Lanka’s Dangerous Domestic Debt Restructuring
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Sri Lanka’s Dangerous Domestic Debt Restructuring

Sep 13, 2023 Jayati Ghosh & Kanchana N. Ruwanpura think the government’s attempt to resolve the balance-of-payments crisis through austerity will backfire.
A Pact for People and Planet

A Pact for People and Planet

Sep 12, 2023 Anne-Marie Slaughter, et al. propose an agreement that aligns existing climate commitments and accelerates progress toward a net-zero future.

Achieving Earth for All
Jul 27, 2022

Very interesting insights, thank you!
A Pledge for Africa
May 2, 2020

This is so important! Developed countries are spending trillions to revive their own economies and undertake measures to manage the pandemic. If even a small fraction of these amounts is set aside for international solidarity - which is also crucial to prevent a recurrence of the spread of the virus - it would fund the most important measures: debt relief through cancellation of significant debts; more resources for health spending in poor countries. A big SDR allocation is costless and essential - there's really no excuse for not doing it immediately. We need citizens in the rich countries to start demanding that their own governments take up these very sensible proposals.
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.