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Author: Jayati Ghosh

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Anti-national Economics

  • March 16, 2016
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Economy and Society, Political Economy
  • 0 Comments

As the air in India grows thick with accusations of being “anti-national”, it is worth taking a step back to consider what this means in political economy terms. After all, to characterise someone as “anti-national” you must first define what…

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Technology and the Future of Work

  • February 4, 2016
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Employment
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The latest fear factor to hit the world relates to the disappearance of jobs. Everywhere now the buzz is about how technology is going to transform work – and reduce it dramatically. The Davos World Economic Forum CEO Klaus Schwab…

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MNREGA under the Modi Regime

  • January 21, 2016
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Economy and Society, Political Economy
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It has been clear for some time that the NDA-led central government is not particularly mindful of its legal obligations, particularly where rights-based laws are concerned. There has been continuing and blatant violation by the central government of Supreme Court…

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The Heavy Price of Economic Policy Failures

  • January 7, 2016
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Economy and Society, Macroeconomics, Political Economy
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A lot of the media discussion on the global economy nowadays is based on the notion of the “new normal” or “new mediocre” – the phenomenon of slowing, stagnating or negative economic growth across most of the world, with even…

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The Question of Learning

  • October 15, 2015
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Economy and Society, Services
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It was just over a year ago, on Gandhi Jayanti 2014, that the schoolgirls of the Senior Secondary School of the town of Bhim, Rajasthan, went on strike. The young, fresh-faced and neatly groomed girls were far removed from anyone’s…

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Cutting off Aid to India is more about Selfishness than Sense

  • October 12, 2015
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Economy and Society, Poverty
  • 0 Comments

Now that the UK is set to stop its foreign aid to India at the end of this year, it is worth considering what message this sends not just to India but to the wider world. It can be justified as…

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Europe’s Refugee “Crisis”

  • September 30, 2015
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Political Economy, World Economy
  • 0 Comments

If you read or watched or listened only to the mainstream media in the North, you could be forgiven for believing that the current influx of refugees into countries of Europe is not just an important concern, but actually even…

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The Retreat of the Emerging Markets

  • September 16, 2015
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Political Economy, World Economy
  • 0 Comments

What a difference a year makes. Even until just a year ago, the “emerging market economies” were being lauded as the hope of global capitalism. They were supposedly able to “decouple” themselves from the financial crises and stagnation of advanced…

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Giving Water Workers their Due

  • September 11, 2015
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Economy and Society
  • 0 Comments

It is hardly necessary to state how essential water is for our survival and quality of existence, for economic activity, and so on. Indeed, this has now become a policy issue of some import. It is not just that drinking…

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Emerging Markets in Retreat

  • August 25, 2015
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • World Economy
  • 0 Comments

Whatever happened to emerging markets? For a while it looked like they had secure and buoyant futures, regardless of the travails of advanced economies. Global investor interest focussed on varied countries grouped by acronyms like BRICS and MINTs that sometimes…

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