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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.
By Jayati Ghosh - Jan 14,2023
 NEW DELHI — After four decades of fostering integration through trade and finance, the global economy has begun a painful process of fragmentation.
By Jayati Ghosh - Nov 17,2022
 NEW DELHI  —  The Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana famously warned that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. But sometimes even those who can recall the past have a selective memory and draw the wrong conclusions.
By Jayati Ghosh - Oct 30,2022
NEW DELHI  —  Nearly 80 per cent of the estimated 70 million people around the world who fell into extreme poverty at the onset of COVID-19 in 2020 were from India, a recent World Bank report has revealed.
By Jayati Ghosh - Aug 21,2022
MEXICO CITY  —  Despite the well-known problems with using gross domestic product as an indicator of human development, policymakers around the world still seem to be obsessed with it.
By Jayati Ghosh - Aug 11,2022
NEW DELHI  —  Primary commodity prices have been on a roller-coaster ride for the past year, and especially for the past six months.
By Jayati Ghosh - Jul 13,2022
NEW DELHI — In 1972, the United Nations held its first-ever environmental summit in Stockholm. In the run-up to the event, a group of scientists wrote The Limits to Growth, a report for the Club of Rome that became an unlikely bestseller.
By Jayati Ghosh - May 13,2022
NEW DELHI  —  Kim Stanley Robinson’s prescient science-fiction novel The Ministry for the Future begins with a stark description of a major heat wave in a northern Indian city that kills millions of people. The novel is set some decades in the future.

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