Maitreesh Ghatak

Maitreesh Ghatak

Maitreesh Ghatak is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.

Electoral Bonds, Incumbency Advantage, and Concentration of Political Power

Was it the party in power at the centre that benefited more from electoral bonds or did the parties in power in the states benefit? Can one see a pattern in the economic characteristics of the states…
▶07-Jul-2024
Maitreesh Ghatak, Anirban Mukherjee
Book
SYMPOSIUM ON 2022-23 CONSUMPTION DATA

Poverty in India Over the Last Decade

The Fact Sheet from the 2022-23 NSO survey suggests that poverty has sharply declined. A careful examination of the claim leads to the conclusion that until the unit-level data is available and…
▶10-Apr-2024
Maitreesh Ghatak, Rishabh Kumar

Quantity vs Quality: Long-term Trends in Job Creation in the Indian Labour Market

Employment and wage trends since the mid-1990s have seen 3 phases of growth. In the 3rd period, since 2017–18, the ‘quantity’ of employment has grown. This has been mainly of the self-employed with…
▶31-Jan-2024
Maitreesh Ghatak, Mrinalini Jha, Jitendra Singh

Trends in Economic Inequality in India

There has been an increase in economic inequality in India over the past few decades, with the rich-poor gaps among the largest of several peer economies. Household surveys show that alongside the…
▶19-Sep-2022
Maitreesh Ghatak, Ramya Raghavan, Linchuan Xu

India's Inequality Problem

India’s inequality is driven by limited upward mobility due, in turn, to unequal opportunity. Greater taxation of wealth will make possible investments in education, health, and infrastructure which…
▶23-Jun-2021
Maitreesh Ghatak

What Would Make India’s Growth Sustainable?

Supply-side measures to revive the economy run the risk of ending up in short growth bursts that are also not inclusive. A policy that pushes domestic demand, especially in rural India, is a better…
▶13-Aug-2020
Maitreesh Ghatak, Ashok Kotwal, Bharat Ramaswami
Covid-19

The Twin Crises of Covid-19 and How to Resolve Them

The inter-dependence between public health & the economy in the Covid-19 crisis calls for solutions that address both together in the short & medium term. The long run demands a greater…
▶24-Apr-2020
Ananda Lal Roy, Maitreesh Ghatak

The Mirage of Modinomics

Over-promise and under-deliver has been the story of the Narendra Modi government's management of the economy.
▶22-Feb-2019
Maitreesh Ghatak, Udayan Mukherjee