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Author: Jayati Ghosh

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Who Controls Renewable Energy Technology?

  • May 17, 2022
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Employment, Macroeconomics
  • 0 Comments

As the earth warms up to increasingly unlivable temperatures, it is clear that fossil fuel energy sources will have to be abandoned as fast as possible, even though most governments today are extraordinarily slow to move decisively on this. Clearly,…

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Fiddling While India’s Workers Burn

  • May 11, 2022
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Industry
  • 0 Comments

More frequent and intense heat waves are poised to become bigger killers in the Indian subcontinent than the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. But the government is essentially leaving people to fend for themselves in a foreseeable tragedy, and envisages continued investment…

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Roots of the Sri Lankan Debt Trap

  • May 3, 2022
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Economy and Society, Finance
  • 0 Comments

The contours of the economic, political and humanitarian crises that Sri Lanka currently faces are now well known. With limited economic diversification, it has for long been an open economy that has found it difficult to earn the foreign exchange…

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Panic about Petrol Prices

  • April 19, 2022
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Development Economics
  • 0 Comments

The latest IPCC report makes it clear: the planet is now dangerously close to a tipping point and reliance on fossil fuels has to be drastically curtailed and even fully eliminated soon, to avoid catastrophic climate changes. Obviously, this urgent…

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Unwarranted Confidence

  • April 5, 2022
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Finance
  • 0 Comments

Global inflation, the launch of a monetary tightening cycle in the US with increased interest rates, depreciating exchange rates and the fall out of the war in Ukraine, are forcing many countries to borrow their way out of balance of…

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So what’s the Actual Rate of Inflation?c

  • March 22, 2022
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • World Economy
  • 0 Comments

Inflation has become a problem in India once again, well before it emerged globally and in the advanced countries as a major concern. In India, inflation rates of 6 per cent and above were evident even during the pandemic collapse,…

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Collateral Damage: Ukraine invasion and energy markets

  • March 8, 2022
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Political Economy
  • 0 Comments

Following Russia’s irrational and devastating invasion of Ukraine, global energy markets have been in turmoil. Russia is the third largest producer of oil in the world and, more importantly, the world’s largest exporter of oil and gas and the second…

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National Income during the Pandemic

  • February 22, 2022
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Political Economy, World Economy
  • 0 Comments

It is obvious that the Covid-19 pandemic has had a deep, searing impact on the Indian economy, in terms of both total economic activity and livelihoods. It is true that the economy had been struggling for several years before then,…

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Unravelling the Capex Push

  • February 8, 2022
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Finance
  • 0 Comments

In her budget speech 2022, the finance minister claimed that the centre pieces of the budgets for both the current financial year (2021-22) and the next (2022-23) are sharp increases in capital expenditure driven by enhanced public investment. That expenditure…

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Public Spending in India

  • January 25, 2022
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Finance
  • 0 Comments

India is an outlier in terms of low government spending during the pandemic, as we noted last month in an earlier article. Unlike advanced economies and even most developing and emerging market economies, the Indian government did not ramp up…

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