Gita Gopinath

The awareness has increased about the need to increase womenwomen participation in the workplace, but there are no amenities to assure that.

Being born a girl in India, it matters a lot what family you are born into.

I guess I am politically very naive.

The term neo-liberal does not have a good definition. It's mostly used when you are angry with somebody or dislike someone, you call them a neo-liberal. Because otherwise, there is no concrete definition to the term.

Being born into a Malayali family that followed a matriarchal system, I always felt loved and had a high sense of self-worth.

Harvard is famous for being an 'absorbing state' for faculty with almost no one leaving it for another institution, which is why the decision of granting tenure is a life long commitment.

Business cycles in emerging markets behave differently from developed markets.

Monetary policy should remain data dependent, be well communicated, and ensure that inflation expectations remain anchored.

I don't attach any labels to myself and if I can be of any help to Kerala in terms of thinking about some of the economic issues there, provide my input which can be taken or discarded, I thought that would be a good thing to do.

Skilling is one area where some researchers are looking at outcomes and finding that while there are lots of people who are joining and completing skilling programmes, it is not getting fully translated into getting and keeping jobs. We need to understand how to fix this problem. The returns to having high quality skills are very high.

We need to realise that entrepreneurship is not necessarily increasing employment.

Fiscal policy will need to manage trade-offs between supporting demand, protecting social spending, and ensuring that public debt remains on a sustainable path, with the optimal mix depending on country-specific circumstances.