THE RADICAL CASE FOR CARE – Meet world-leading rebel economist Jayati Ghosh

Max and Nabil interview the world-leading, award-winning, rebel
Indian economist Jayati Ghosh. In this fast-paced and inspiring
interview Jayati makes the radical case for care – and tells us
what she really thinks about all those politicians around the world
talking a good talk about gender equality.

Around the world women and girls put in billions of hours of unpaid
care work each day – that’s the cooking, the cleaning, the caring
for children, sick and the elderly. We ask Jayati: how is this at
the heart of the global inequality crisis? Why’s it so hidden? And
what can be done about it? 

We challenge Jayati on why she isn’t celebrating all the apparent
economic progress the world has made in recent decades – especially
for women in work around the world? 

And at a time of real worry about a jobs apocalypse on the horizon
with automation and a new age of robots on the rise – what does
Jayati, an expert on the future of work, think we can do for
workers around the world? Why is she feeling so hopeful right
now? 

Jayati Ghosh is one of the world's leading economists. She is
Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi,
Executive Secretary of International Development Economics
Associates, and a member of the Independent Commission for the
Reform of International Corporate Taxation.

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