Jayati Ghosh

About

Jayati Ghosh is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with a distinguished academic background including a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Cambridge and an M.A. from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her career spans several decades, during which she has held positions at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India, including Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, and has been a visiting professor at institutions such as Tufts University. Her research focuses on development economics, macroeconomic policy, and social issues related to gender and employment, with a particular emphasis on the Indian economy and East Asian economic crises. Ghosh has contributed extensively to understanding neoliberal reforms, economic development, and the impacts of globalization, and has authored numerous books and articles on these topics. Her work is recognized through various awards and honors, including the UNDP Award for Excellence in Analysis and the ILO Decent Work Research Prize, reflecting her influence in economic policy analysis and social sciences.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Economics
• Development economics
• Sociology
• Economic growth
• Medicine
• Gender studies
• Political economy
• Finance
• Virology

Selected publications

• The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy

  Feminist Economics · 2022 · 54 citations

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• The return of austerity imperils global health

  BMJ Global Health · 2023 · 18 citations

  Recognising the world's lack of preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic, international organisations like the World Health Organization, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund are calling for extensive additional funding to strengthen pandemic preparedness and response systems in low-income and middle-income countries, including through domestic resource mobilisation. This article examines the prospects of national health budgets increasing in such a context, drawing on new International Mon…

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• Technical comment on “Fairness considerations in global mitigation investments”

  Science · 2023-05-18 · 9 citations

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  In an otherwise excellent analysis of fair regional shares of global mitigation investments, Pachauri et al . (Policy Forum, 9 December 2022, p. 1057) dramatically overestimate developing countries’ ‘capability’ to invest by estimating GDP using purchasing power parity exchange rates. Since internationally sourced investment goods must be paid for at market exchange rates, capability-based interregional finance flows should be vastly larger.

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• The social consequences of inflation in developing countries

  The Economic and Labour Relations Review · 2023-06-01 · 7 citations

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  Abstract The title of this article is a riff off a publication of G. C. Harcourt’s 1974 piece, ‘The social consequences of inflation’. He wrote this in a period of the global economy that bears some strong similarities to our own contemporary phase when inflation is suddenly back in the global headlines. There is at least one significant difference: at that time, Harcourt highlighted inflation as the outcome of an excess of total demand in real terms over available supplies of goods and services…

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• Relational Inequality and Economic Outcomes: A Consideration of the Indian Experience

  Review of Political Economy · 2023-10-05 · 7 citations

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  The study of inequality by economists has largely focussed on distributive inequalities of various kinds. The focus on different dimensions of distributive inequality in access and outcomes is welcome. However, it is also important to consider relational inequalities and power imbalances, which economists typically consider to be the domain of sociology, anthropology and related disciplines. Many economic processes cannot be understood without analysing the underlying relational inequalities, wh…

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Frequent coauthors

• Gaya Herrington

  Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (Switzerland)

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• Hunter Lovins

  University of Massachusetts Amherst

  25 shared

• Jørgen Randers

  25 shared

• Julia Kim

  Pacific Fertility Center

  25 shared

• Denise Lucy

  20 shared

• Françoise Lepage

  18 shared

• C. P. Chandrasekhar

  18 shared

• B. Paden

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  11 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Economics

  Yale University

  1983

• M.A., Economics

  Yale University

  1979

• B.A., Economics

  University of Delhi

  1976

Awards & honors

• UNDP Award for Excellence in Analysis 2005
• Ava Maiti Memorial Prize, Asiatic Society, Kolkata, India 20…
• NordSud Research Prize in Social Sciences 2010, Fondazione P…
• ILO Decent Work Research Prize 2010, International Labour Of…
• The Lancet Lecture, University College London, 2011

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