Jayati Ghosh
Senior Research Fellow
Senior Research Fellow
Jayati is a senior research fellow at CEPR and has taught economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi for nearly 35 years. In January 2021, she joined the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has authored and/or edited 19 books — including Never Done and Poorly Paid: Women’s Work in Globalising India (Women Unlimited, New Delhi, 2009); coedited Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development (with Erik S. Reinert and Rainer Kattel, Edward Elgar, 2014); Demonetisation Decoded (Routledge, 2017), and Informal Women Workers in the Global South (Routledge, 2021) — and nearly 200 scholarly articles. She has received several prizes, including for distinguished contributions to the social sciences in India in 2015, the International Economics Association Fellow Award in 2023, the International Labour Organisation’s Decent Work Research Prize for 2010, and the NordSud Prize for Social Sciences in 2010. Ghosh has advised governments in India and other countries, including as chairperson of the Andhra Pradesh Commission on Farmers’ Welfare in 2004 and member of the National Knowledge Commission of India (2005–9). She is the executive secretary of International Development Economics Associates, an international network of heterodox development economists; has consulted for international organizations, including ILO, UNDP, UNCTAD, UN-DESA, UNRISD, and UN Women; and is a member of several international commissions, including the International Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation and the Commission for Global Economic Transformation of INET. Ghosh writes regularly for newspapers, journals, and blogs.
Regularly tracking four alternative economic indicators would provide a very different view of comparative performance from the one that emerges from GDP-based analysis.