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Jayati Ghosh

Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of 21 books, including The Making of a Catastrophe: COVID-19 and the Indian Economy.

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How Emerging Markets Hurt Poor Countries

Financial globalization was supposed to spur development. Instead it transfers money to the Global North and exacerbates existing inequalities.

C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jayati Ghosh

Forum Responses

Response: Degrowth Is a Distraction

The distribution of gains is more important than GDP.
Jayati Ghosh

Response: Full Employment For Growth

Robert Pollin has identified the central challenge of economic policy today: how to sustain high employment levels and jobs with decent wages and conditions. This argument is relevant not only for the...
Jayati Ghosh

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