Jayati Ghosh
Biographic Data
| ID | 137221 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jayati Ghosh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jayati |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghosh |
| SIGNATURE | GHOSH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8437-2527 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 168 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1923 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Beyond Trade-offs
In this new special Symposium edition of our podcast series Planetary Choices: Global Governance Beyond Neo-Liberalism, we engage with Dani Rodrik’s new book, Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate, alongside a panel of leading scholars: Jayati Ghosh and Marcel Fratzscher. How can we simultaneously address climate change, restore the middle class, and reduce global poverty, w…
The Gendered Nature of Sovereign Debt Accumulation
The gendered dimensions of sovereign debt crises and the strongly gendered implications of attempts at debt crisis resolution are now well-known. However, there has been less attention paid to the ways in which debt accumulation is also gendered, and fewer analyses of the implications of a debt-driven development path for women, girls, and other discriminated groups. Such an exercise reveals that the gains from the process of sovereign debt accum…
Can the end of ‘foreign aid’ be the beginning of global public investment
Power, Control, Inequality, and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century
Jayati Ghosh illuminates how capitalism has exacerbated inequality not only due to market forces, but as a result of how wealthy countries and firms based within them have tilted the scales toward themselves, disenfranchising the rest of the world in the process. This pervasive economic inequality, Ghosh concludes, undermines the idea and practice of true democracy
Is Renewable Energy Enough to Save the Planet, or Humanity
This contribution argues that the ‘green transition’ towards net zero carbon emissions is not possible within a capitalist market‐oriented framework, and requires significant public intervention. But simply changing the energy mix towards renewables will not be sufficient to save the planet or humanity: more fundamental changes in economic and social arrangements are needed. Poverty elimination, massive reductions in inequality, empowering women …
Financing social protection requires changing the global financial architecture
The return of austerity imperils global health
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 i…
Unequal Development and Labour in Brazil, Gerry Rodgers, Roberto Véras de Oliveira et Janine Rodgers
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Relational Inequality and Economic Outcomes
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 an…
What Do We Really Know about Productivity Differentials across Countries
This article examines and critiques the most widely used measure of productivity (output per worker employed) and argues that this is a flawed, inadequate, and even misleading measure of economic progress. In terms of cross-country comparisons and assessing trends over time, both the numerator (GDP or value added) and the denominator (number of workers or hours worked) have significant conceptual and measurement problems. These issues are conside…
Suivre l'évolution du discours sur le développement dans la Revue internationale du Travail
Dans l'introduction de ce numéro du centenaire, nous suivons le discours sur le développement tel qu'il ressort d'une série d'articles publiés dans la Revue internationale du Travail entre 1971 et 2020. Les treize articles choisis pour figurer dans ce numéro proposent, sur le développement, des perspectives diverses, à des moments différents. L'accent est mis sur les revenus, la transformation structurelle, l'amélioration de la vie des population…
A gender-responsive recovery
The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems
The unnecessary constraints to vaccinating the whole world
This paper is part of the SPE Theme on the Political Economy of COVID-19
Climate Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century
Climate imperialism has emerged as a new—and potentially even the most lethal—form of imperialism in the world economy today. Confronting it requires recognizing and dealing with all its different aspects. But it also requires addressing the monopolies of knowledge created by the global regime of intellectual property rights that has been instituted and cemented by hegemonic world powers
Interpreting contemporary imperialism
Samir Amin’s life and work left behind many important legacies, which can continue to enrich us if only we recognise them adequately. He brought an indefatigable ‘optimism of the will’ to complex p
Hindutva, Economic Neoliberalism and the Abuse of Economic Statistics in India
This essay argues that attempts at implementing the Hindutva agenda adversely affect economic activity. At first sight, Modi’s unabashedly neoliberal and pro-big capital claims could seem contradictory to his politics of hatred that severely disrupt economic growth. However, the ability of the government to persuade the public that the economy is doing well or that adverse outcomes are not the result of its own policies, actually serves the neoli…
A Brave New World, or the Same Old Story with New Characters
Capitalism has always been a global system, but not in fixed ways. Different national powers have emerged and become dominant over the centuries, but the fundamental processes underlying the uneven development of global capitalism have not altered; they continue to be driven by imperialism - the struggle of large capital over economic territory of various kinds. Since the late 1960s, only the East Asian region has shown notable increases in its s…
The Uses and Abuses of Inequality
Social inequalities obviously affect human capabilities and are undesirable from a welfare standpoint. But they may actually be useful for particular growth trajectories, by creating segmented labour markets that reduce production costs. Some patterns of growth may rely on such inequalities and thereby accentuate and perpetuate them. In extreme cases, “modernising” capitalism, instead of destroying traditional forms of social oppression and discr…
Gendered labor markets and capitalist accumulation
Gender relations affect economic processes, especially macroeconomic patterns and accumulation trajectories, so capitalism relies on gender construction of societies to further its expansion. For example, changes in women’s involvement in paid and unpaid work impact the extent to which the unpaid care economy subsidizes the formal economy. Failure to recognize this leads to misleading estimates of aggregate labor productivity and its change over …
Is a gender perspective necessary for understanding the economy
The articles in this issue ask what we are missing when we study an economy without taking into account the way in which gender relations impact its functioning, at both micro and macro levels. They open the way for fresh thinking on the interplay between gender relations and capitalist economic dynamics
The Financialization of Finance? Demonetization and the Dubious Push to Cashlessness in India
This Debate contribution describes the promotion of digital rather than cash payments as a form of the financialization of finance, in its role as a payments system, with reference to recent Indian experience. The arguments in favour of reducing cash usage must be seen relative to the costs of digital payments, for both society and individuals. The drastic demonetization episode in India, which removed 86 per cent of the value of notes in circula…
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Disease and Illness, Political Ecology of
This entry offers a definition of the political ecology framework and its application to disease ecology. Political ecology is an analytical social theory framework that focuses on the relationships between political, economic, and social factors and environmental and health issues. The central elements of this framework include context, history, scale, and human agency. The argument is that human–environment relations at local, regional, and glo…
The Unnatural Coupling
The dramatic rise and fall of world food prices in 2007-8 was largely a result of speculative activity in global commodity markets, enabled by financial deregulation measures in the United States and elsewhere. Despite the recent fall in agricultural prices in world trade, the food crisis has been exacerbated in many developing countries where food prices remain high and even continue to increase. The financial crisis also directly operates to in…
Sharecropping and Sharecroppers
Globalization, Export-Oriented Employment for Women and Social Policy
Growth, industrialisation and inequality in India
The Indian growth process has been marked by the relative absence of structural change and the inability of faster output expansion to shift people out of low-productivity activities into higher value ones. Recent rapid growth has also been based on and resulted in growing inequalities. Private accumulation has relied upon existing social inequalities that create segmented labour markets that keep wages of certain social categories low, and on ty…
Concern and practice among men about HIV/Aids in low socioeconomic income areas of Lilongwe, Malawi
Women in Chinsapo, Malawi
Malawi, a very poor country located in southern Africa, is no exception to the growing trend and severity in HIV prevalence. By the end of 2003 there were 900 000 adults and children in Malawi living with HIV/AIDS. Adult prevalence was estimated to be 15%, which is higher than the 7.1% average rate for sub-Saharan Africa. In order to understand the spread of HIV/AIDS it is imperative to address the economic, social, cultural, and political issues…
Differential and absolute land rent
This article discusses the evolution and usefulness of concepts of land rent in Classical Political Economy, It is argued that the theory of differential rent (especially in its Ricardian elaboration) is adequate to cover explanations of land rent in purely capitalist agriculture. The Marxist concept of absolute rent races a number of difficulties with respect to pure agrarian capitalism. It is more useful in analysing agricultures in the process…
A Brave New World, or the Same Old Story with New Characters
Capitalism has always been a global system, but not in fixed ways. Different national powers have emerged and become dominant over the centuries, but the fundamental processes underlying the uneven development of global capitalism have not altered; they continue to be driven by imperialism - the struggle of large capital over economic territory of various kinds. Since the late 1960s, only the East Asian region has shown notable increases in its s…
A Geographical Perspective on HIV/Aids in India
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJayati GhoshDr. Ghosh is an associate professor of international business and interdisciplinary studies at Dominican University of California, San Rafael, California 94901–2298
The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems
Interpreting contemporary imperialism
Samir Amin’s life and work left behind many important legacies, which can continue to enrich us if only we recognise them adequately. He brought an indefatigable ‘optimism of the will’ to complex p
Accumulation Strategies and Human Development in India
India is frequently cited as one of the 'success stories' of globalization, with respect to its economic growth performance, during the past two and half decades. However, the very pattern of recent growth resulted in regional imbalances, greater inequalities in the control over assets and incomes, dispossession and displacement without adequate compensation and rehabilitation. Apart from this, there are clear failures of this growth process, eve…
Dealing with 'The Poor
Vulnerability to HIV/Aids among women of reproductive age in the slums of Delhi and Hyderabad, India
The Uses and Abuses of Inequality
Social inequalities obviously affect human capabilities and are undesirable from a welfare standpoint. But they may actually be useful for particular growth trajectories, by creating segmented labour markets that reduce production costs. Some patterns of growth may rely on such inequalities and thereby accentuate and perpetuate them. In extreme cases, “modernising” capitalism, instead of destroying traditional forms of social oppression and discr…
The Financialization of Finance? Demonetization and the Dubious Push to Cashlessness in India
This Debate contribution describes the promotion of digital rather than cash payments as a form of the financialization of finance, in its role as a payments system, with reference to recent Indian experience. The arguments in favour of reducing cash usage must be seen relative to the costs of digital payments, for both society and individuals. The drastic demonetization episode in India, which removed 86 per cent of the value of notes in circula…
Foreign Debt and Economic Development
A gender-responsive recovery
The unnecessary constraints to vaccinating the whole world
This paper is part of the SPE Theme on the Political Economy of COVID-19
How Feasible Is a Rural Employment Guarantee
The structural change in the world economy with a decay in advanced countries
This article focuses on three aspects of structural changes in the world economy. First, advanced countries are decaying with lower growth, accompanied by increased economic inequality and instability. Most of them are facing a demographic and ecological crisis. Second, the dynamic center of the world economy is shifting to developing countries. Their trajectories were diversified into three types: oil-producing rentier countries, stagnating LLDC…
The Creation of the Next Imperialism
Insofar as imperialism is about the struggle over and capture of economic territory (which must be broadly defined to include not just geographical territory such as land and natural resources, but also the creation of new markets, sources of labor, and forms of surplus transfer such as are reflected in intellectual property), these changes [in imperialism since the early 20 th century] have created distant demands upon imperialist structures and…
Women, Labor, and Capital Accumulation in Asia
One of the enduring myths about capitalism that continues to be perpetuated in mainstream economic textbooks and other pedagogic strategies is that labor supply is somehow exogenous to the economic system. The supply of labor is typically assumed, especially in standard growth theories, to be determined by the rate of population growth, which in turn is also seen as "outside" the economic system rather than in interplay with it. The reality is, o…
Factors affecting the vulnerability of female slum youth to HIV/Aids in Delhi and Hyderabad, India
Policies for the External Sector
A Short History of British Agriculture
Sharecropping and Sharecroppers
Differential and absolute land rent
This article discusses the evolution and usefulness of concepts of land rent in Classical Political Economy, It is argued that the theory of differential rent (especially in its Ricardian elaboration) is adequate to cover explanations of land rent in purely capitalist agriculture. The Marxist concept of absolute rent races a number of difficulties with respect to pure agrarian capitalism. It is more useful in analysing agricultures in the process…
Simone de Beauvoir
Foreign Debt and Economic Development
Lenin and Imperialism
Intersectoral Terms of Trade, Agricultural Growth and the Pattern of Demand
The movement of intersectoral terms of trade in India is generally regarded as an issue of crucial importance in affecting patterns of growth and income distribution both in agriculture and in industry. While there is substantial (and often acrimonious) debate on the determinants of agriculture-industry terms of trade as well as their precise impact on economic welfare and the growth process, the significance of such movements tends to be taken f…
The Determination of Land Rent in a Non-capitalist Agriculture
Most economic theories of land rent determination relate to capitalist agriculture. This is true also of the theories of Ricardo and Marx, which were formulated primarily in the context of nineteenth-century English agriculture. These theories share two crucial assumption: cultivation solely for profit and free mobility of capital between agriculture and other sectors. In the Ricardian scheme these assumptions enable land rent to be determined as…
International Monetary Economics
Twelve Theses on Agricultural Prices
The Getting of Wisdom
Coercive Corporatism
Assessing poverty Alleviation Strategies for their impact on Poor Women
A Geographical Perspective on HIV/Aids in India
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJayati GhoshDr. Ghosh is an associate professor of international business and interdisciplinary studies at Dominican University of California, San Rafael, California 94901–2298
Globalization, Export-Oriented Employment for Women and Social Policy
Policies for the External Sector
Regulating Capital Flows
How Feasible Is a Rural Employment Guarantee
Women in Chinsapo, Malawi
Malawi, a very poor country located in southern Africa, is no exception to the growing trend and severity in HIV prevalence. By the end of 2003 there were 900 000 adults and children in Malawi living with HIV/AIDS. Adult prevalence was estimated to be 15%, which is higher than the 7.1% average rate for sub-Saharan Africa. In order to understand the spread of HIV/AIDS it is imperative to address the economic, social, cultural, and political issues…
Making Sense of the World Economy
Concern and practice among men about HIV/Aids in low socioeconomic income areas of Lilongwe, Malawi
Vulnerability to HIV/Aids among women of reproductive age in the slums of Delhi and Hyderabad, India
Factors affecting the vulnerability of female slum youth to HIV/Aids in Delhi and Hyderabad, India
The Unnatural Coupling
The dramatic rise and fall of world food prices in 2007-8 was largely a result of speculative activity in global commodity markets, enabled by financial deregulation measures in the United States and elsewhere. Despite the recent fall in agricultural prices in world trade, the food crisis has been exacerbated in many developing countries where food prices remain high and even continue to increase. The financial crisis also directly operates to in…
Dealing with 'The Poor
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