Food Systems Worsen Diets, Health
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 21 2025 (IPS) - Corporate-dominated food systems are responsible for widespread but...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 21 2025 (IPS) - Corporate-dominated food systems are responsible for widespread but...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 7 2025 (IPS) - The forthcoming fourth United Nations Financing for Development...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec 17 2024 (IPS) - The new geopolitics after the first Cold War undermines peace,...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec 5 2024 (IPS) - Despite uneven economic recovery since the pandemic, poverty,...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov 19 2024 (IPS) - Western financial policies have been squeezing economies worldwide....
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov 6 2024 (IPS) - Despite earlier income convergence among nations, many low-income...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct 22 2024 (IPS) - New institutional economics (NIE) has received another so-called...
By Ong Kar Jin  and Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct 9 2024 (IPS) - After 2.5 years, US President Joe Biden’s...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sep 11, 2024 (IPS) - Marginalised and dominated economically by the Global North,...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Research Advisor, Khazanah Research Institute at the National Climate Governance Summit in a fireside chat,...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram  and Siti Maisarah Zainurin KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug 28 2024 (IPS)  - Oxfam  expects the world’s first...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug 14 2024 (IPS)  - When history repeats itself, the first time is a tragedy; the next...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jul 24 2024 (IPS)  - Many low-income countries (LICs) continue to slip further behind...
By Ndongo Samba Sylla  and Jomo Kwame Sundaram DAKAR and KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 20 2024 (IPS) - Developing country governments are being...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jun 17 2024 (IPS)  - Since 2008, farmland acquisitions have doubled prices worldwide,...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 30 2024 (IPS) - The World Bank expects the international economic slowdown to be at...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 24 2024 (IPS) - Rich nations’ climate hypocrisy is accelerating global heating,...
From Jomo and International Development Economics Associates
Jomo Kwame Sundaram is Senior Adviser at the Khazanah Research Institute. He is also Visiting Fellow at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, and Visiting Professor at the International Islamic University in Malaysia.
He was a member of the Economic Action Council, chaired by the seventh Malaysian Prime Minister, and the 5-member Council of Eminent Persons appointed by him, Professor at the University of Malaya (1986-2004), Founder-Chair of International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs), UN Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development (2005-2012), Research Coordinator for the G24 Intergovernmental Group on International Monetary Affairs and Development (2006-2012), Assistant Director General for Economic and Social Development, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (2012-2015) and third Tun Hussein Onn Chair in International Studies at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia (2016-2017).
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He received the 2007 Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.
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