By Jayati Ghosh

“It’s not about ‘less-state’, it’s more about ‘less-state serving the people’ and ‘more-state serving large capital’”. This is how Professor Ghosh defines neoliberalism at its most basic. Ghosh explores the links between gender, development and neoliberalism through exploring ideas of privatization and care work. Learn more about neoliberalism, what it is and why it matters in this insightful video.

Jayati Ghosh taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for nearly 35 years, and is currently at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. She is a member of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All, the United Nations Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs, and the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Board for Effective Multilateralism.