Jayati Ghosh

Dr Jayati Ghosh, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is a member of the Club of Rome’s Transformational Economics Commission and co-chair of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation.

Stocks hit by the impact of Trump's tariffs

The Global South will pay for Trump’s trade war

Many developing economies will likely begin to reconsider their participation in an unequal system that no longer serves their interests.

1w ago

The political roots of falling wage growth

It's now official: workers around the world are falling behind. The International Labor Organization's (ILO) latest Global Wage Report finds that, excluding China, real (inflation-adjusted) wages grew at an annual rate of just 1.1 percent in 2017, down from 1.8 percent in 2016. That is the slowest pace since 2008.

6y ago
April 18, 2025
April 18, 2025
Stocks hit by the impact of Trump's tariffs

The Global South will pay for Trump’s trade war

Many developing economies will likely begin to reconsider their participation in an unequal system that no longer serves their interests.

December 13, 2018
December 13, 2018

The political roots of falling wage growth

It's now official: workers around the world are falling behind. The International Labor Organization's (ILO) latest Global Wage Report finds that, excluding China, real (inflation-adjusted) wages grew at an annual rate of just 1.1 percent in 2017, down from 1.8 percent in 2016. That is the slowest pace since 2008.