South Suffering Due to Powerful Nations’ Policies
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 30 2024 (IPS) - The World Bank expects the international economic slowdown to be at...
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Rich Nation Hypocrisy Accelerating Global Heating
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 24 2024 (IPS) - Rich nations’ climate hypocrisy is accelerating global heating,...
Carbon Markets Biased, Distorted, Undermined
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 9 2024 (IPS) - Carbon dioxide emission taxes, prices and markets have been touted as...
Developing Countries’ Government Debt Crises Loom Larger
By Ndongo Samba Sylla and Jomo Kwame Sundaram ACCRA, Ghana, Apr 3 2024 (IPS) - Developing countries are being blamed for having borrowed...
IMF Urges Non-alignment in Second Cold War
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram ACCRA, Ghana, Mar 27 2024 (IPS) - The IMF no. 2 recommends non-alignment as the best option for developing...
Industrial policy, East or West, for development or war?
Jomo Kwame Sundaram NEEMRANA, Rajasthan, India. March 20, 2024 (IPS). Developing countries wanting to pursue industrial policy were...
Global South Stagnating under Heavier Debt Burden
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 13 2024 (IPS) - Much higher interest rates – due to Western central banks – are...
Building Popular National Economic Alternatives*
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KATHMANDU, Nepal, Mar 6, 2024 (IPS) - Viable, popular national economic alternatives require conditions to help...
Hapless New Year for Global South
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb 28 2024 (IPS) - As dire economic predictions for 2023 did not materialise, pundits...
Imperialism, globalisation and its discontents*
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KATHMANDU, February 19, 2024 (IPS). Imperialism continues to dominate the world. Globalisation is losing to some of...
North Ignores ‘Perfect Storm’ in Global South
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb 14 2024 (IPS) - A gathering ‘perfect storm’ – due to various developments, several quite...
Onerous Debt Making Poorest Poorer
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 31 2024 (IPS) - Contractionary economic trends since 2008 and ‘geopolitical’ conflicts...
World Bank Enables Private Capture of Profits, Public Resources
World Bank Enables Private Capture of Profits, Public Resources By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec 20 2023 (IPS) - The...
Rich Nations, IMF Deepen World Stagnation
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec 13 2023 (IPS) - With the US Fed raising interest rates, the world economy is slowing...
Big Cons: How Consultancy Firms Undermine Governments
By Ong Kar Jin and Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec 6 2023 (IPS) - Greater government reliance on consulting companies has...
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About Jomo
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).
He received the 2007 Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.
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 TheStar 26 June 2020 |  The Star 20 Sept 2019Political will needed to push for renewable energy |  The Star 10July 2019Malaysian businesses need boost |
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 The Star 9 Oct 2019Subsidise public transport for bottom 40% |  The Edge 26 Sept 2019Call for measures to counteract global headwinds |  The Edge 9 Oct 2019Subsidise public transportation, not fuel |
 The Star 8 Oct 2019Subsidise public transportation for bottom 70% |  TheEdge 2Oct 2019"We need to counteract downward forces" |
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