Jayati Ghosh @JayatiGhosh@mas.to
Professor of Economics, JNU, New Delhi
Joined Nov 2019
RT @FaheemYounus
Why travel bans are a bad idea?
- Previously proven to be ineffective
- By the time bans are enacted, virus has already traveled
- Bans punish the good ppl (for their honesty)
- They disincentivize other nations to report a new variant
Remember, it’s not March 2020
RT @_HassanF
So none of us from 'banned countries' can travel to Geneva for #MC12 now. We said do not hold an in person meeting, pass Waiver, do not rely on benevolence, share the tech, speed up access- cos variants, timing, variants, timing, variants, timing.
Own goals.
RT @MazzucatoM
What happens when you don’t vaccinate the world to stop vaccine apartheid? The virus mutates in unvaccinated regions! It ain’t rocket science! We have been warning about this in the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All: https://www.who.int/groups/who-council-on-the-economics-of-health-for-all https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-59426277
RT @ElsTorreele
Hmmm… Omicron. My choice would have been ToldYouSo https://twitter.com/mvankerkhove/status/1464293032115777536
How are we celebrating Constitution Day in India? @jahnavi_sen shows the several ways in which citizens' constitutional rights are being eroded, while lip service celebrations continue.
https://thewire.in/law/constitution-day-court-challenges-basic-rights
RT @ProSyn
In this week's #PSBigPicture, @Jayati1609, @JulesKortenhors, @DanielGrosCEPS, and more consider the possible impact of rising oil, gas, and electricity prices on countries’ green transitions. https://bit.ly/3r8hWfX
RT @Kentikelenis
Since covid-19, we are often told that austerity is a thing of the past and that countries will use public spending for a just recovery
Is this actually likely? No: austerity in store for 83 countries
✅New open access article w @thomstubbs
https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13028
Short thread
RT @IsabellaMWeber
Thrilled to see @mathoyos' research featured in @WorldPhenomenal! @UMassEcon
*Stay tuned for our joint research on the effect of IMF interventions on economic growth. https://twitter.com/WorldPhenomenal/status/1463214571154337798
This is SO important. Legal protection of knowledge monopolies is not just unjust and wrong - it is also killing people. And the Covid-19 pandemic is only one expression of how wrong this can go. We must bring is systems to ensure that such knowledge is in the public domain.
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RT @ElsTorreele
And it seems @pfizer is willing to go through great lengths to keep its secrets. How can it be legal, and even legally protected to keep lifesa…
https://twitter.com/ElsTorreele/status/1463596403377287172
RT @peoplesvaccine
Pfizer's Albert Bourla accuses @DrTedros of speaking “emotionally” for calling out pharma companies for prioritising billions in profit over human lives?!🤬
If caring that 5million humans have died means you're emotional, yes, we wish a few more people would be.
The inhumanity. https://twitter.com/Winnie_Byanyima/status/1462837667654160387
RT @ElsTorreele
Multiple vaccines were developed in record time through an unprecedented collective research effort. By privatizing its fruits via IP owned by a handful of companies, we fail to share its benefits and ensure equitable access @GYamey @reshmagar #IPwaiver https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2786300
RT @KatharinaPistor
This. https://twitter.com/thomaspogge/status/1462129376947060745
It's astonishing that there isn't stronger public demand in rich countries for their governments to donate surplus vaccine doses immediately. Hoarding and then giving unnecessary booster doses is not just selfish, it's short-sighted and stupid.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-giving-covid-booster-shots-make-it-harder-to-vaccinate-the-rest-of-the-world/
RT @Tulikabooksdel
WHEN GOVERNMENTS FAIL: A Pandemic and Its Aftermath
Eds Vikas Rawal, Jayati Ghosh, C.P. Chandrasekhar
To order online,
https://tulikabooks.in/
https://cup.columbia.edu/
@sakivwarla
#books #newbooks #Economics #covidpolicies #policies #covid_19 #capitalism
RT @DevEconNetwork
The zoom link for the Social Policy In #Africa Conference on "#Development, #Democracy and #SocialPolicy: Remembering Thandika Mkandawire" (22-24 Nov, 2021) is https://bit.ly/3Dx2Vrq.
Read more about the event here. https://bit.ly/3x2S6Lu
@CODESRIA @Jayati1609
RT @globalhlthtwit
So the World Trade Organisation can’t make up its mind whether to save up to a million lives each month, or to protect the right of Big Pharma to make $hundreds of billions from vaccines invented by taxation funded scientists. https://twitter.com/thirugeneva/status/1461603737475158018
RT @Kisanektamorcha
And its a WIN, after long 1 year!!
Modi Govt decides to REPEAL ALL 3 FARM LAWS- says PM Modi
Unity & Justice Is On Its Way to Success
#VictoryForFarmers
#FarmersProtest #KisanMajdoorEktaZindabaad
.@jahnavi_sen reminds us of the real attitude of the BJP to the farmers' protests, on a day when the government, mindful of coming state assembly elections, has finally given in to demands for repeal of the farm laws.
https://m.thewire.in/article/politics/farm-laws-repeal-modi-bjp-leaders-comments
RT @KevinPGallagher
The Resilience and Sustainability Trust was much discussed at @COP26. Here are the contours of how @IMFNews @KGeorgieva should design it so it is attractive to developing countries. Requiring pre-existing IMF programs would stifle demand and lock up climate finance https://twitter.com/gdp_center/status/1460747511367446538
Professor of Economics, JNU, New Delhi
Joined Nov 2019
