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Economist. Also on Bluesky @jayatighosh.bsky.social

New Delhi and UMass Amherst
Joined June 2018
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ICRICT
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🔹673 million people face hunger 🔹3 daily meals for all would cost $315 billion 🔹That's just 12% of the $2.7 trillion spent annually on weapons 🌍 A 2% global tax on super-rich could end this hunger, explained President @LulaOficial at the @World_FoodForum in
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@TaxTheTopIndia
Tax The Top 1%
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हमारा पैसा हमारा हिसाब अमीरों पर टैक्स बढ़ाओ, जनहित में पैसे लगाओ #RTI #TaxTheTop #inequality
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@MacaesBruno
Bruno Maçães
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Palestinian children only die in inverted commas
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@RnaudBertrand
Arnaud Bertrand
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Here's a question I know many are wondering about: why did China wait until now to use rare earths as leverage against the US? Why not in the first Trump administration when the US started the trade hostilities? Or when the Biden administration unleashed the chips export controls
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@SVRuparelia
Sanjay Ruparelia
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How are current economic crises testing China's authoritarian system? Delighted to host @hofunghung-On the Frontlines of Democracy @OTFLOD. October 21 7:00-8:30pm TPL, 789 Yonge Street Register: https://t.co/AXBqyW94sp Co-sponsors: @arts_tmu & @torontolibrary @JohnsHopkins
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@Artemisfornow
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‼️ Starmer says 1 billion Indians “voluntarily” adopted digital ID. This is misinformation. India embedded digital ID into everyday life. Subsidies, pensions, food rations, bank accounts, mobile phones all required Aadhaar. Without it people couldn’t access , benefits, SIM
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@NobelPrize
The Nobel Prize
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This year’s chemistry laureate Omar Yaghi was born in Amman, Jordan, in 1965 to parents who were refugees from Palestine. When we spoke to him he shared his story: “I grew up in a very humble home, we were a dozen of us in one room, sharing it with the cattle that we used to
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@SwetaTripathy97
Sweta Tripathy
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I reviewed Prof. @Jayati1609 book 'Informal Women Workers in the Global South: Policies and Practices for the Formalisation of Women’s Employment in Developing Economies' and it's out with @FeministEcon . Read it here: https://t.co/I4AMyLSMkS
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Published in Feminist Economics (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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@icrict
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🚨Wealth, Power & Democracy🚨 Extreme wealth concentration is a systemic risk to global economic, social and political progress. Join us during #IMFmeetings to discuss how we can address this existential threat. 📅 October 15 🕐 3PM ET 📺 Livestream https://t.co/t2lNM5Hf6a
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essential to remember that the palestinian resistance (which is not limited to one party) has offered a full exchange of captives since october 2023 & it is the usa & their zionist proxy base that have consistently refused that
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Craig Murray
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I am pleased that Hamas have accepted the framework for peace discussions and sidestepped the diplomatic trap. A POW exchange is a good thing; it will shortly become plain that Netanyahu has absolutely no intention of following the wider deal in good faith.
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@KNMAIndia
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
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A music festival created and curated for everyone. In this reflection, T. M. Krishna shares why the KNMA Music Festival is unlike any other. Set in the open grounds of Sunder Nursery, it invites people from every walk of life - a festival without walls, where anyone can listen,
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@ProgIntl
Progressive International
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HAPPENING NOW 🇵🇸🇺🇳 While the State of Israel takes the floor of the UN General Assembly, The Hague Group holds a simultaneous Ministerial Meeting of 34 states to deliberate a joint action plan to halt the Gaza genocide.
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@Jayati1609
Jayati Ghosh
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I was greatly honoured to deliver the Albert Hirschman Lecture at @UNESCO in Paris on 30 September. The video is available here. https://t.co/LX0xZbX3hs
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"The fact that billionaires have been so vocal in their opposition to the 'Zucman tax' suggests that they are not paying even 2%! It's an admission of tax avoidance" - @JosephEStiglitz at @AssembleeNat #taxthepower
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@ProSyn
Project Syndicate
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While Chinese exports and extractive investments have often been viewed as threats to industrialization in recipient countries, China’s recent green manufacturing investments could help boost domestic production, writes @UMassAmherst’s @Jayati1609.
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Jayati Ghosh sees rising capital flows to developing countries as evidence of supply chains moving beyond the West.
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@ericcoquerel
Eric Coquerel
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En attendant la taxe Zucman, succès du colloque sur la taxation du patrimoine des hauts-revenus avec @JosephEStiglitz @Jayati1609 et @gabriel_zucman. Pour revoir cet échange, rendez-vous sur YouTube : https://t.co/Vm14YKLVnF
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@DevEconNetwork
International Development Economics Associates
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"The multipronged attack by the Trump administration on India’s exports of goods & services to US spells an era of heightened uncertainty." 📖Read the blog of @cpc01 & @Jayati1609 on how economic actions by @realDonaldTrump create uncertainty for India. https://t.co/kRqvMtbxTD
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@mohammedIhysse
mohammed hussein~Gaza 🇵🇸
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When I defended my Master’s thesis under the bombing and rubble of Gaza, the very first question I was asked was: “Why defend it under these circumstances? What benefit will it bring you now?” I smiled and answered: “Maybe I will die holding this degree, maybe it will be a
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