Nobel laureate in economics Joseph Stiglitz has been named, along with Indian economist Jayati Ghosh, co-chair of ICRICT, an international think tank that campaigns for greater corporate taxation globally, the report said on Thursday. organization at AFP.
Their vision and leadership will be crucial in the battle to reform the global tax system to make it fairer and more efficient, says the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Business Taxation (ICRICT).
The two economists, hitherto present as members of the commission with economists such as Thomas Piketty and Gabriel Zucman, take over from Jos Antonio Ocampo, who has meanwhile become Colombia’s finance minister.
A professor at Columbia University and winner of the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001, Joseph Stiglitz led the Council of Economic Advisers of the United States during the presidential mandate of Bill Clinton. He was also chief economist of the World Bank from 1997 to 2000.
Jayati Ghosh is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, having taught at Jawaharlal Nehru New Delhi University for almost 35 years. She specializes in globalization, international trade, finance, macroeconomic policy, poverty and inequality.
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The ICRICT has been very active in recent months in the debates around the minimum taxation of multinationals on a global scale, the principle of which was adopted at the end of 2021 under the aegis of the OECD but is slow to be translated into national laws.