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By Jayati Ghosh - Jan 30,2024
WDELHI — India seems to be everyone’s favorite growth story nowadays. Despite valid concerns about the accuracy of official statistics, the Indian economy is projected to expand by 6.3 per cent in 2024, an undeniably remarkable feat given that its GDP exceeds $4.1 trillion.
By Jayati Ghosh - Dec 14,2023
NEW DELHI — The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai is an opportunity to reflect on what these large, costly, and carbon-intensive international summits aim to achieve.
By Jayati Ghosh - Oct 15,2023
NEW DELHI — Among the multiple crises that have erupted around the world, the avoidable tragedy of growing hunger receives only fleeting mention.
By Jayati Ghosh - Aug 22,2023
NEW DELHI — In recent years, soaring food prices and the growing frequency and intensity of floods, droughts, and other extreme weather events have prompted warnings of a looming grain shortage, potentially spelling disaster for the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations
By Jayati Ghosh - Jul 18,2023
NEW DELHI — With much of the developing world teetering on the edge of a debt crisis, the calls for a new issuance of special drawing rights (SDRs, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) reserve asset), have grown louder and more urgent.
By Jayati Ghosh - Jun 23,2023
NEW DELHI — The global food system is broken.
By Jayati Ghosh - Apr 20,2023
NEW DELHI — It has taken far too long, but it seems that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has finally internalised some hard truths about sovereign-debt reduction. Chief among them is that growing economies have an easier time repaying.
By Jayati Ghosh - Mar 18,2023
NEW DELHI — Carbon pricing is all the rage these days, at least in the developed world. But while global leaders and experts, most of them from rich countries, increasingly embrace the idea of putting the “right price” on carbon, the concept remains vague and ill-defined.
By Jayati Ghosh - Feb 16,2023
NEW DELHI — Over the past two decades, Indian multibillionaire Gautam Adani’s close ties to Prime Minister Narendra Modi have helped the Gujarati businessman become Asia’s wealthiest person.
By Jayati Ghosh - Jan 22,2023
NEW DELHI — The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, has always been more than a little problematic. But in recent years, the annual gathering of the rich and powerful has become an increasingly wasteful exercise in vanity.

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