India Today-8 Feb 2019
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Quoted on UBI in
Now, Rahul Gandhi should declare himself a Socialist
Free Press Journal-29
Jan 2019
As Dr Maitreesh
Ghatak of London School of Economics explains a UBI programme cuts
administrative costs and empowers citizens by giving ...
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Quoted on UBI in
An economics
professor at London School of Economics, Maitreesh Ghatak,
explained that UBI has three primary features - cash transfer, ..
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JPE 2002
paper on tenancy reform is cited in:
Farm loan waivers: Competitive
populism among political parties for ...
Financial Express-11 Jan 2019
Indeed, a
study by Abhijit Banerjee, Paul Gertler and Maitreesh Ghatak,
published in the Journal of Political Economy, showed that the land ...
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Quoted
on UBI in
Analysis:
Universal Basic Income is back in the spotlight
CNBCTV18-10 Jan 2019
Economics Professor at London School of Economics, Maitreesh Ghatak, says, "Evidence from low- and middle-income countries suggest that,
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I was
part of a group of economists led by Raghu Rajan who wrote a proposal for
economic reform in India:
https://www.uchicago.in/events/press-briefing-an-economic-agenda-for-the-next-five-years/
Press coverage of this report:
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/star-economists-give-ideal-macro-blueprint-for-india/story-TVolm4YufNPbg1SwrmaY6M.html
https://theprint.in/economy/rajans-13-these-top-economists-bankers-can-help-india-set-its-reform-agenda/165140/
https://theprint.in/opinion/why-indias-economy-needs-eco-normics-not-left-vs-right-debate/172995/
https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/UQULcMWjvvzdL8rgxuhZ8O/Opinion-For-the-Indian-farmer-Santa-Claus-came-early-this.html
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Quoted in this article in The India Today,
December 12, 2018
The Devil's in the Data
India Today
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A column by senior journalist Abheek Barman refers to paper on the correlates of Maoist violence in India with Oliver Vanden Eynde, November 18, 2018
Economic
Times (blog)-18 Nov 2018
In a 2017 EPW paper, economist Maitreesh Ghatak of the London School of Economics and Oliver Vanden Eyende of the Paris School of ...
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JDE 1999 paper cited
in
On Muhammad Yunus and His
Pioneering Work on Micro Finance
Kashmir Reader-3 Nov 2018
Ghatak, Maitreesh and
Timothy Guinnane. (1999). “The economics of lending with joint liability:
theory and practice.” Journal of Development ...
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Interviewed in
this article in The India Today, October 19, 2018
India
Today-19 Oct 2018
Back in the last general election, in 2014, nothing helped the then prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi more than his promise to root out ...
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Interview in the National Herald, September 16, 2018
Economist Maitreesh Ghatak: At the moment, the GDP growth is at a four-year low
National
Herald-16 Sep 2018
Maitreesh Ghatak, Professor of Economics at London School of Economics, interviewed by Tathagata Bhattacharya on the state of the Indian economy
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Quoted in this article in The Telegraph on demonetisation, September 13, 2018
Destructive? Yes. Creative?
Ahem
The
Telegraph India-13
Sep 2018
Maitreesh Ghatak, professor of economics in London School of Economics, was more forthcoming. "Creative destruction has two parts - the creative part and the destructive part....."
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Interviewed in this article in The India
Today, September 7, 2018
India
Today-7 Sep 2018
"It (demonetisation) has been a complete failure," says Maitreesh Ghatak, professor of economics at the London School of Economics.
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Interview by economist and film-director
Suman Ghosh in The Telegraph, September 2, 2018
'Stormy times, but stay
optimistic'
The
Telegraph India-2
Sep 2018
Maitreesh Ghatak makes a point during the adda at The Bengal Club as (right) Suman Ghosh listens in rapt attention.
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TV interview in Scroll.in about the Gujarat model before the recent state elections, February 7, 2018
The Gujarat Model of Growth: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Scroll.in
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Interview in BBC about the Gujarat model before the recent state elections, December 14, 2017
India: Is Gujarat synonymous with development thanks to Modi?
BBC News
Prof Maitreesh Ghatak, from the London School of Economics, and Dr Sanchari Roy, from King's College London, have put this to the test.
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TV Interview by Sreenivasan Jain of NDTV about the Gujarat model (between 6-10 minutes in the clip below) before the recent state elections, November 21, 2017
Gujarat Model: Fact Or Fiction?
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TV Interview by Sreenivasan Jain of NDTV about the Gujarat model before the National elections, May 11, 2014
Truth vs Hype - Contenders 2014, The Making of 'Modi Wave'
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Discussion of an auction-based proposal for land acquisition I made with Parikshit Ghosh in The Economist
The fight over India's land
laws
The
Economist-21 Apr 2015
A suggestion by Maitreesh Ghatak of the London School of Economics and Parikshit Ghosh of the Delhi School of Economics is to invite offers ..
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An essay by Sasha Volokh on prison privatisation that discussed my work on ownership of public goods with Tim Besley.
How do we choose proper performance measures for prisons? (link to pdf)
Washington
Post -27 Feb 2014
And Timothy Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak show that, when both a provider and the government can make productive investments in a project, and when the provider is altruistic, then the provider should own the project if it values it more than the government does. Privatization can thus be more beneficial in the presence of altruistic providers.
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Archive
2018
Fifteen Years Since Muthanga, Promise of Land to Kerala's Adivasis ...
The
Wire-18 Feb 2018
Can a Land Acquisition Act address both justice and prosperity? Maitreesh Ghatakand Parikshit Ghosh think it can ...
Can India implement Universal
Basic Income?
Moneycontrol.com-30 Jan 2018
When asked this to Maitreesh Ghatak,
an Economics Professor at London School of Economics, he too pointed that the
amount is not sufficient.
Can India afford to ignore
UBI?
Fortune
India-28 Jan 2018
With Budget 2018 just around the corner, it’s
worth looking at whether the finance minister will make any move towards
universal basic income in what is probably going to be a populist Budget.
2017
Poor social indicators must
make Gujarat rethink its growth model
Down
To Earth Magazine (press release) (blog)-18 Dec 2017
Four years later, Maitreesh Ghatak of
London School of Economics writes about Gujarat's development model: “When it
comes to social ...
Why So Many Economists Are Disillusioned
With the 'Gujarat Model'
The
Wire-28 Nov 2017
For example, Ghatak and Roy and Nagaraj and Pandey looked at if there were trend breaks in Gujarat's path of growth relative to India, before ...
State's Tuberculosis Rampage
Exemplifies the Failure of the 'Gujarat ...
The
Wire-27 Nov 2017
As economist Maitreesh Ghatak describes
it, Gujarat is a “classic case of a corporate-led development model which
involves increasing ...
Gujarat Model's Failure
Explains Why the Economy Is a Significant ...
The
Wire-26 Nov 2017
Other work, including by Maitreesh
Ghatak, has also highlighted the growing gap between income growth and
conditions of life, including the ...
Opinion: Deconstructing development
in Gujarat
WION-20 Nov 2017
In a recent article well-known
economist, Maitreesh Ghatak evaluated Gujarat's performance on
various economic indicators and found it to be ...
Why Manmohan Singh Was the
Most Appropriate Leader for the Top Job
The
Quint-17 Oct 2017
While commenting on the ten years of the Manmohan Singh government, London School of Economics professor Maitreesh Ghatak and two ...
Modinomics loses urgency at worst moment
Nikkei
Asian Review-1 Oct 2017
The risk, warns Maitreesh Ghatak of the London School of Economics, is that "Modinomics has turned into muddlenomics." Growth slowed to
Why India fails to deliver
health and education
Livemint-23 Aug 2017
In a 2005 paper, Timothy Besley
and Maitreesh Ghatak established that matching the missions of
citizens (principal) with those of the public ...
Is free speech under threat in
Modi's India?
Aljazeera.com-3 Aug 2017
Maitreesh Ghatak, a professor of economics at the LSE who has
written about freedom of speech, points to a trend of extreme polarisation in ...
Universal basic income: To go
beyond political gimmickry, here's what ...
Firstpost-23 Jan 2017
... the Business Standard newspaper this
morning says UBI, based on existing definition of the poverty line, as
calculated by Maitreesh Ghatak, ...
India's demonetisation
gamble backfires on Modi, say analysts
Irish
Times-5 Jan 2017
... example of firing cannonballs to kill
mosquitos, with huge collateral damage,” said Maitreesh Ghatak of
the London School of Economics.
2016
Razing Presidency University
Gate Reflects Malignant Mind at Work
The
Quint-21 Dec 2016
Maitreesh Ghatak, professor of economics at the London School
of Economics, who learnt the subject at Presidency during the late 1980s,
says ...
The problem with land ceilings
Politicsweb-15 Dec 2016
Maitreesh Ghatak and Sanchari Roy in an article entitled
“Land reform and agricultural productivity in India: a review of evidence” in
the Oxford ...
Expert Gyan: Nine Economists
on the Costs of Demonetisation
The
Wire-8 Dec 2016
Huge collateral damage: Maitreesh
Ghatak, professor, London School of Economics and Political Science,
London. Credit: lse.co.uk.
Economists speak up on demonetisation
Chandigarh
Tribune-5 Dec 2016
Maitreesh Ghatak (Professor, The London School of Economics
and Political Science, London). The demonetisation
policy, at best, is a ...
INDIA: Member of Parliament Jay
Panda expresses support for basic income.
Basic
Income News-3 Dec 2016
... Berkeley), Vijay Joshi (Oxford), and Maitreesh
Ghatak (London School of Economics) for additional support. (One might
additionally mention ...
Only 6- 10% of the black money
is kept in cash: Suman Ghosh
Times
of India-27 Nov 2016
Ghosh points out that there have been a chorus of economists of the stature of Amartya Sen, Larry Summers, Kaushik Basu, Maitreesh Ghatak, ...
Does black money boost
economic growth?
Livemint-17 Nov 2016
Another paper by Maitreesh Ghatak,
Parikshit Ghosh and Ashok Kotwal, economists at London School of Economics,
Delhi School of ...
Universal Basic Income is
neither desirable nor practical
Economic
Times (blog)-30 Aug 2016
It has been advocated by economists like
Pranab Bardhan and Maitreesh Ghatak. Many
leftists welcome UBI as a fundamental right, and an ...
Is it time for a universal
basic income in India?
Livemint-27 Aug 2016
In a recent Indian Expressarticle, Maitreesh
Ghatak, professor at the London ... Ghatak points out that the current
welfare spending of the ....
Can laissez faire exist in a
welfare state?
Daily
News & Analysis-9
May 2016
Maitreesh Ghatak, Economics Professor at London School of
Economics says, “Ola and Uber are using a basic pricing model where
they ...
In Five Years, Mamata Changed
From Face of Hope to Ugrachandi
The
Quint-2 Apr 2016
Maitreesh Ghatak, professor of economics at the London School
of Economics responded to this on March 15 in the same paper. He
showed ...
Is transparency in lobbying
the silver bullet for controlling corruption?
Livemint-23 Mar 2016
In a paper written before the 2014 Lok Sabha
elections, Maitreesh Ghatak, professor of economics at the London
School of Economics, and his ...
2015
How the Biharis
saw through Modi's rhetoric
DAWN.com
(blog)-11 Nov 2015
Professors Maitreesh Ghatak of the London School of Economics and Sanchari Roy of the University of Warwick are also interested in the ...
Calcutta
Telegraph-17 Oct 2015
In a paper that he has co-authored with Maitreesh
Ghatak of the London School of Economics and Sandip Mitra of the
Indian Statistical Institute, ...
Dodgy data: Farm suicides
dropped 67% in five years
Scroll.in-21 Jul 2015
That leaves out farmers whose land title is in
their fathers' names, said Maitreesh Ghatak, a professor at the
London School of Economics.
Indian land bill: 'We're
losing not just land, but a whole generation of ...
The
Guardian-12 May 2015
This exceptionally vulnerable group is, according
to developmental economist Maitreesh Ghatak, also likely to get
hardest hit by the sort of ...
Modi's math is wrong: Only 8%
of projects are actually held up ...
Quartz-5 May 2015
“It's a classic underreporting problem,”
said Maitreesh Ghatak, a professor at the London School of
Economics who has studied land acquisition ...
2014
Ashok Lahiri:
Continuing challenges for West Bengal
Business
Standard-23 Dec 2014
In March 2014, before the Lok Sabha elections,
Professors Maitreesh Ghatak and Sanchari Roy compared the
Gujarat economy under ...
Continue with NREGA,
economists urge Modi
The
Hindu-13 Oct 2014
In a letter to Mr. Modi, Dilip Abreu, Pranab Bardhan, V. Bhaskar, Ashwini Deshpande, Jean Dreze, Maitreesh Ghatak, Jayati Ghosh, Dilip ...
Did bad politics do UPA in or
bad economics? Or both?
Firstpost-24 May 2014
According to this MoneyControl article, Maitreesh Ghatak of the London School of Economics, Parikshit Ghosh of the Delhi School of ...ersity of ...
Mihir S Sharma: Farewell, a
golden age
Business
Standard-11 May 2014
As the economist Maitreesh Ghatak and
collaborators concluded after carefully evaluating the UPA's numbers:
"This manufactured reality ...
Modi's reputation for
governance miracles is built on shaky ground
The
Conversation-21 Apr 2014
Maitreesh Ghatak, professor of economics at the LSE and
Sanchari Roy, a research associate at the Department of Economics, at
Warwick ...
'UPA's decade wasn't all that
dark'
Business
Standard-14 Apr 2014
Written by Maitreesh Ghatak of
the London School of Economics, Parikshit Ghosh of the Delhi School of
Economics and Ashok Kotwal of the ...
The great Gujarat growth
debate
Livemint-11 Apr 2014
In a sharply worded critique of the 'wild euphoria and exuberant optimism about (Narendra) Modi's economic leadership', Maitreesh Ghatak of ...
The Gujarat muddle
Opinion-The Hindu-10
Apr 2014
UPA's 10-year averages are
just statistical spin
Economic
Times-6 Apr 2014
Independent observers (like economists Maitreesh
Ghatak and Sanchari Roy) repeat this, and add that poverty declined by
an averag
UPA Shambling on
Communication, not Economy: Study
India.com-2 Apr 2014
Despite,
various scams, Maitreesh Ghatak, of the London School of Economics,
Parikshit Ghosh of the Delhi School of Economics and Ashok ...
NDA's performance
on overall economic parameters worse than ...
International-Daily News & Analysis-1 Apr 2014
Before 2014
'Auction land instead of
compensating farmers'
Rediff-25 Jul 2012
Parikshit Ghosh, Associate Professor at Delhi
School of Economics, and Maitreesh Ghatak, Professor of Economics
at London School of ...
A simple proposal on food
security
The
Hindu-11 Mar 2012
Jean Drčze (Allahabad University);. Bhaskar Dutta (Warwick University);. Maitreesh Ghatak (London School of Economics);. Deepti Goel (Delhi ...
Calcutta
Telegraph-27 Jun 2009
Maitreesh Ghatak, professor of economics at the London School of Economics, sees the Lalgrah visit as an encouraging sign of civil society .