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Jayati Ghosh | |
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 Ghosh in 2012 | |
| Born | (1955-09-16)16 September 1955 (age 70) |
| Spouse | Abhijit Sen |
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| Doctoral advisor | Terence J. Byres,Geoffrey C. Harcourt |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Development economics |
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Jayati Ghosh (born 16 September 1955) is an Indiandevelopment economist. She taught economics atJawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for nearly 35 years, and since January 2021 she has been Professor of Economics at theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Her core areas of study includeinternational economics and globalisation, employment patterns indeveloping countries,macroeconomic policy, andgender and development.
Jayati Ghosh was born on 16 September 1955.[1] Ghosh attendedMiranda House,Delhi University for her undergraduate and got her MA in economics fromJawaharlal Nehru University. She joinedCambridge University for her MPhil and PhD after winning theInlaks Scholarship.[2] Her 1984 doctoral thesis atCambridge University was entitledThe Non capitalist Land Rent: Theories and the Case of North India under the supervision ofDr. Terence J. Byres,Geoffrey C. Harcourt andSuzanne Paine.
In addition to her teaching, Ghosh has authored and/or edited 21 books and more than 220 scholarly articles. Recent books includeThe making of a catastrophe: Covid-19 and the Indian economy, Aleph Books 2022;When governments fail: Covid-19 and the economy, Tulika Books and Columbia University Press 2021 (co-edited);Women workers in the informal economy, Routledge 2021 (edited);Never Done and Poorly Paid: Women’s Work in Globalising India, Women Unlimited, New Delhi 2009; co-editedElgar Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development, 2014; co-editedAfter Crisis, Tulika 2009; co-authoredDemonetisation Decoded, Routledge 2017.
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 (2005–09). She was the Executive Secretary of International Development Economics Associates, an international network of heterodox development economists, from 2002 to 2021. She has consulted for international organizations includingILO,UNDP,UNCTAD,UN-DESA,UNRISD andUN Women and is member of several international boards and commissions, including the UN High-Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs, the Commission on Global Economic Transformation of INET, and the International Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT). In 2021 she was appointed to theWHO Council on the Economics of Health for All, chaired byMariana Mazzucato. She's a member of theClub of Rome. In March 2022, she was appointed to the UN Secretary General's High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism, mandated to provide a vision for international cooperation to deal with current and future challenges. She also writes regularly for popular media, including newspapers, journals and blogs, includingProject Syndicate,Frontline,The Guardian andHindu BusinessLine.
Ghosh has received a number of awards, including:
Ghosh was married toAbhijit Sen, an economist who was a member of the disbandedPlanning Commission. He died in 2022. She has one daughter, Jahnavi Sen.[4]
