Jayati Ghosh was born on 16 September 1955 and is an Indian development economist.
13 Facts About Jayati Ghosh
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Jayati Ghosh is the Chairperson of the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and her core areas of study include international economics, employment patterns in developing countries, macroeconomic policy, and issues related to gender and development.
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Jayati Ghosh joined Cambridge University for her PhD after winning the Inlaks Scholarship.
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Jayati Ghosh has previously held positions at Tufts University and Cambridge University, lecturing meanwhile at academic institutions throughout India.
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Jayati Ghosh is one of the founders of the Economic Research Foundation, New Delhi, a non-profit trust devoted to progressive economic research.
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Jayati Ghosh was the principal author of the West Bengal Human Development Report which has received the United Nations Development Programme Prize for excellence in analysis.
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Jayati Ghosh writes a regular column for the fortnightly national magazine Frontline, focusing mainly on economic issues.
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In Spring Term 2011, Jayati Ghosh served as the first Ragnar Nurkse Visiting Professor in Development Economics at Tallinn University of Technology's Technology Governance graduate program.
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In October 2019, Jayati Ghosh expressed her belief that the relay of policymakers who were fixed to political dogmas that discouraged more public spending was dangerous to the economy and destabilizing to society.
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In February of 2020, Jayati Ghosh criticized the Modi-led government for misrepresenting data in the 2020 Budget which was presented a month earlier than usual.
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Jayati Ghosh emphasized the lack of attention given to the need for creation of employment in the new budget, stating that there were cuts in almost every employment-intensive sector.
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Jayati Ghosh was conferred International Labour Organisation's Decent Work Research Prize along with Professor Eve Landau in February 2011.
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Jayati Ghosh is married to Abhijit Sen, an economist who was a member of the disbanded Planning Commission.