Development Economist & Professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst; Author of "The Making of a Catastrophe"; Co-Chair of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation
Jayati Ghosh Biography
Jayati Ghosh is a development economist and professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Ghosh previously taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi for nearly 35 years. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from University of Delhi, a Master of Arts and MPhil from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and a doctorate from University of Cambridge. Her research addresses globalization, international finance, employment patterns in developing countries, and gender and development.
Ghosh has authored or edited 21 books and more than 200 scholarly articles. Her books include "The Making of a Catastrophe: Covid-19 and the Indian Economy," "When Governments Fail: Covid-19 and the Economy," "Women Workers in the Informal Economy," "Never Done and Poorly Paid: Women's Work in Globalising India," "Elgar Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development," and "Demonetisation Decoded." She contributes regularly to media outlets such as Project Syndicate, Frontline, The Guardian, and Hindu BusinessLine.
Her honors include the International Labour Organization Decent Work Research Prize, the Galbraith Award from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, and the International Economics Association Fellow Award. Ghosh has been inducted as an invited foreign member of the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome.
Ghosh is a member of several international boards and commissions, including the United Nations Secretary General's High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism, the United Nations High-Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs, and the World Health Organization Council on the Economics of Health for All. She serves as co-chair of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation. Ghosh has advised governments in India and other countries, including as chairperson of the Andhra Pradesh Commission on Farmers' Welfare and as a member of the National Knowledge Commission of India. She is a founder of the Economic Research Foundation in New Delhi, a charitable trust focused on economic research.
For two decades, Ghosh was executive secretary of International Development Economics Associates, a network of heterodox development economists. She has consulted for organizations including the International Labour Organization, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, and United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. Ghosh's career spans continents and institutions, contributing to global discussions on inequality, economic governance, and development policy.
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