PEP Steering Committee Member M.V. Lee Badgett is interviewed in the Washington Post on the economic costs of LGBTQ discrimination in India

M.V. Lee Badgett, PEP Steering Committee Member, says discrimination against LGBTQ in India costs between 0.1 and 1.4 percent of gross domestic product, based on a review of health care and workplace data in an interview with the Washington Post. She says, “When a country loses that much GDP, normally we say that it’s had a recession.” Her comments are in a news story about how students and alumni from some of the top universities in India are seeking to overturn colonial era laws that are used as pretexts for mistreatment and exclusion of LGBTQ people. India’s Supreme Court is expected to issue rulings in coming weeks on the laws. This research was also featured in the Georgia Voice.

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