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| Jayati Ghosh: Rebalancing power
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10th, 2024. |
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The
renowned development economist, Jayati Ghosh, offers
an eye-opening perspective on the different facets of
inequality and the need for systemic change to address
them, bringing together her interests in international
trade and finance, employment patterns in developing
countries, as well as issues related to gender and development.
Ghosh argues for the need to redress the power imbalances
which are reinforcing socially irrational and unjust
policies. Through the prisms of gender inequality, social
discrimination, and the global power dynamics between
countries, Ghosh looks at how relational inequality
impacts the ability of individuals or groups to influence
the actions of others, affecting their agency and power.
She delves into the undervaluing and under-rewarding
of care work, to highlight the lack of power and voice
that care workers and unpaid caregivers have in society
compared to the significant influence of financial institutions
and corporations. Ghosh also critiques the worldwide
prevalence of crony capitalism and plutocracy, and -
as an antidote to despair - she argues the need for
mobilisation and collective action to increase the power
of those who need it.
Jayati Ghosh taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi for nearly 35 years, and since January 2021
has been Professor of economics at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst. She is co-chair of the Independent
Commission for the Reform of International Corporate
Taxation and a member of the UN Secretary-general’s
High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism
and the World Health Organization's Council on the Economics
of Health for All.
Thoughts and suggestions? Email us at SystemShift@greenpeace.org
This episode of SystemShift comes from Greenpeace Nordic
and is hosted by Greenpeace campaigner and former Swedish
politician and Green MEP, Carl Schlyter, and produced
by Alexia Fridén, with additional support from
Ariadna Rodrigo, Juliana Costa, Christian Aslund and
Attila Kulcsár at Greenpeace.
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