In the foreword of the report, Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA, criticises the widening gap and its effects thereof. She remarks, “It’s now essential to change course. We need systemic solutions: reversal of the disastrous privatisations of finance, of knowledge, of public services and utilities, and of the natural commons. We also need accessible fiscal policies like taxation of the wealthy and of multinational corporations. And, we need to undo the structural inequalities of gender, race, ethnicity, and caste that feed into the economic disparities.” Ghosh is also a member of the World Health Organisation’s Council on the Economics of Health For All.