Economics
May - July 2026
Ramya Vijaya
Debt Sustainability Versus Good Governance
My research is broadly on the interconnected crises of sovereign debt burdens, fiscal sustainability, and the need for fiscal space to address critical structural transformation challenges including the climate crisis, investments in vital social services, and development infrastructure.
Biography
Ramya Vijaya is a professor of economics at Stockton University. Her work explores debt, credit ratings and other system and other systemic inequalities in the global political economy. She also works on aspects of feminist political economy in examining, gender, migration and the gendered impacts of fiscal austerity
Publications
Sovereign Credit Rating: Impact on Social Investment and Role in Financial Subordination
A Feminist Perspective on the Urgent Need for Reforms in Sovereign Credit Ratings
