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Jayati Ghosh

We need to take a new look at technological change because the kind of technological change that is more disruptive rather than productive is neither inevitable nor that desirable.

Challenges of Price Stability, Growth and Employment in Bangladesh: Role of the Bangladesh Bank

Muhammed Muqtada

In the context of the current debate on whether central banks, especially in the developing world, should pursue a single or dual/multiple mandate, the author examines the Bangladesh Bank’s stance to follow the latter.

Freedom of Association and the Right to Strike

Lula da Silva

In this article the author, the former President of Brazil, takes issue with attempts to limit the right to strike and the pressure to reduce the ILO's character from a global organisation promoting workers' rights to a more standard UN agency.

Looking to the US

C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh

In a curious turn of events, the US economy rather than the Asian emerging markets is now expected to lead a global recovery. But the reason and implications are not so clear.

Has the Income Share of the Middle and Upper-middle been Stable over Time, or is its Current Homogeneity across the World the Outcome of a Process of Convergence? The ‘Palma Ratio' Revisited

José Gabriel Palma

The income-share of the rich, the most crucial of all distributional stylised facts, is what largely explains why inequality is so unequal across the world.

Forget Me, Forget Me Not: Productivity and the minimum wage in Mexic

Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Stefanie Garry

Analysing the experience of Mexico, the authors argue that the transfer of labour productivity benefits to minimum wage workers is far from automatic or guaranteed.

Responding to the Unemployment Challenge: A job guarantee proposal for Greec

Rania Antonopoulos, Sofia Adam, Kijong Kim, Thomas Masterson, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou

This report, by the Levy Institute and INE-GSEE, presents research based evidence of the macroeconomic and employment effects of a large-scale direct job creation intervention.

The Rise and Fall of the Global South

Prabhat Patnaik

The south that was supposedly rising is now witnessing a fall and this can be prevented only if the domestic market is expanded through egalitarian measures of redistribution.

Rising Inequality: A global challenge

Lim Mah Hui

The article discusses the causes and implications of rising inequality, an issue which has become a global challenge.

Public Management, Policy Capacity, Innovation and Development

Erkki Karo and Rainer Kattel

This paper discusses how and why policy capacity evolves; and why under certain circumstances complementarities or mismatches between the public and private sectors emerge.

Workers Dying in Qatar

Jayati Ghosh

Recognising the rights of migrant workers in Qatar is obviously crucial; but it is equally important to recognise the rights of workers in India.

The Employment Challenge

C.P. Chandrasekhar & Jayati Ghosh

In recent years, even in those developing countries in Asia where productivity gains have been significant and growth high, increasing employment has been a huge challenge.

Jeff Bezos could be Wrong

C.P. Chandrasekhar

Jeff Bezos' acquisition of "The Washington Post" has led to speculation on the reasons and on the opportunity it presents for the ailing daily and the industry in the U.S.

Do Wage Shares Have to Fall with Globalisation?

C.P. Chandrasekhar & Jayati Ghosh

That inequality has been on the rise during the period of globalisation is evident from the declining shares of labour income in GDP in many parts of the world.