Jayati Ghosh

Money is needed from corporations and the ultra-rich to reduce poverty and inequality, empower women, transform food systems and overhaul energy systems

The changes needed to achieve sustainable well-being for everyone are so big, they require people everywhere to put pressure on governments which must respond or be replaced by it.

The rise in oil and food prices owing to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is hitting poorer countries the hardest

Food-price inflation has a direct effect on people’s lives — and it hits the poor the hardest

Structural forces mean emerging economies can’t offer the necessary Covid-19 fiscal-relief packages

The technology is permeating every facet of our lives, but few countries have laws to make it safe

By threatening students and academics, the Indian government seeks to create a compliant nation. But it is also a push towards disaster

East Asia 1998, Greece 2008, Argentina 2018. The fund knows the suffering its loans cause, yet it has gone ahead in Ecuador

Multinational companies have been gaming the rules of the global economy to minimise their tax liability — or even eliminate it

Tax avoidance hits developing countries hard because companies’ declared profits are more sensitive to tax rates than in developed countries.

The major economic entities are in the throes of self-inflicted, but apparently insoluble, problems as they lurch their way to stagnation.

The International Monetary Fund has consistently failed to do its job. Whether or not Gordon Brown takes over, it needs major reform.