Mitra Talks With LA Times, PBS About the Trump Administration’s Crackdown on International Students
International students and workers also support the economy beyond their universities or workplaces. By living in the U.S., foreign students and workers create jobs as they buy goods and services, says Devashish Mitra, Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs.
See related: Federal Government, International Affairs, U.S. Education, United States
Sultana Discusses the Environmental Costs of AI on RGS Climate Change Research Group Podcast
“One thing that people don't often think about is the land and the air that also belongs to this equation because increasingly, gas turbines are being built near data center sites to support the energy supply needs and they're driven by the ever-expanding agentic AI use globally,” says Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment.
See related: Artificial Intelligence, Environment, Government, International Affairs
Sultana Article on the Nepal Disaster Published in Counterpoint
“Nepal is owed something more substantial than sympathy and more useful than a loan charging interest on damage it did not cause. Monitoring of unstable ice and glacial lakes concerns the whole basin and should be funded on a standing basis, with hydrological data crossing borders as a matter of routine rather than negotiation,” writes Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment.
See related: Climate Change, Colonialism, Government, International Affairs, Natural Disasters, South Asia, Water
Mitra Speaks With Turbulence Podcast About Tariffs, Global Trade and India
Devashish Mitra, Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs, argues that tariffs can't do what they promise: trade balances are governed by macroeconomics, not trade policy, and the cost of a tariff falls largely on the country that imposes it.
See related: Government, India, International Affairs, Tariffs, Trade, United States
Elgar Encyclopedia of International Trade
Devashish Mitra, professor of economics and Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs, has co-edited a new reference work, Elgar Encyclopedia of International Trade (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026), with Priyaranjan Jha, professor of economics at the University of California, Irvine. The volume is part of the Elgar Encyclopedias in Economics and Finance series.
See related: Economic Policy, International Affairs, Trade
The Effect of Export Market Access on Labor Market Power: Firm-Level Evidence From Vietnam
The article, co-authored by Professor of Economics Devashish Mitra, was published in the Journal of Development Economics.
See related: Gender and Sex, International Agreements, Labor, Southeast Asia, Tariffs, Trade
Sultana Featured in Financial Times Documentary on Oil Frontiers and Energy Security
“We have a distorted global economic system that rewards fossil fuel extraction, that rewards fossil fuel dependency. And as a result, it is harder for smaller countries that are worried about their own energy security, their own economic security, their own social social development to forgo an oil discovery,” says Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment.
Exports and Intergenerational Mobility
Co-authored by Professor of Economics Devashish Mitra, the study was published in the Journal of International Economics.
See related: Children, Adolescents, International Agreements, Labor, Southeast Asia, Trade
Redistributive Land Reforms, Agricultural Productivity, and Structural Change
The article, co-authored by Professor of Economics Devashish Mitra and Associate Professor of Economics Abdulaziz Shifa, was published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
See related: Agriculture, Economic Policy, Labor
Mitra Weighs In on the US Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling in Hindustan Times Article
“A prudent approach for India is to let uncertainties arising out of the SCOTUS ruling resolve themselves to the extent possible before finalizing the trade deal,” says Devashish Mitra, Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs.
See related: Federal Government, India, International Affairs, International Agreements, SCOTUS, Tariffs, Trade, United States