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By Jayati Ghosh - Sep 15,2024
 NEW DELHI — There is no denying that plastics have delivered tremendous benefits over the past century, driving technological innovation, transforming healthcare, and fueling global economic growth.
By Jayati Ghosh - Jul 16,2024
 NEW DELHI — Imagine a scenario where a private company effectively creates and controls its own jurisdiction within a sovereign country. This company introduces its own currency, enacts laws, and establishes courts, prisons, police forces and even intelligence services.
By Jayati Ghosh - May 14,2024
 NEW DELHI — While the technical details of international agreements may seem arcane or even trivial, they often commit governments to policies that have major economic consequences.
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.

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