End vaccine apartheid before millions more die
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY & KUALA LUMPUR: At least 85 poor countries will not have significant access to coronavirus...
top of page
- Jan 19, 2021
- 5 min
Nothing to Learn from East Asia?
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR: Covid-19 infection and death rates in the Western world and many developing countries in Asia and Latin...
1,159 views0 comments
- Jan 4, 2021
- 5 min
2021: Year of living dangerously?
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR: Goodbye 2020, but unfortunately, not good riddance, as we all have to live with its legacy. It has been...
520 views0 comments
- Nov 23, 2020
- 1 min
How will Budget 2021 address well-being and recovery?
Catch this Astro Vizhuthugal interview (in English) with Jomo, conducted on 29 October 2020, about 2 weeks before the Budget was...
67 views0 comments
- Nov 16, 2020
- 4 min
COVID-19 compounding inequalities
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY: The United Nations’ renamed World Social Report 2020 (WSR 2020) argued...
240 views0 comments
- Oct 26, 2020
- 5 min
Finance Covid-19 Relief and Recovery, Not Debt Buybacks
The need to strengthen fiscal measures for adequate and appropriate relief and recovery measures.
122 views0 comments
- Sep 28, 2020
- 5 min
Shareholder capitalism’s ugly legacy
Shareholder capitalism’s consequences haunt the world and threaten humanity with stagnation and self-destruction.
334 views0 comments
- Sep 11, 2020
- 1 min
‘Absolutely no reason’ why Malaysia can’t be bolder in fiscal spending, says expert
Like the rest of the world, Malaysia’s economy risks a “very protracted depression” from the coronavirus crisis without sufficient measures.
73 views0 comments
- Sep 1, 2020
- 4 min
Trump undermines WHO, UN system
Washington has often had to struggle in recent decades to ensure that it continues to serve changing US interests.
283 views0 comments
- Aug 24, 2020
- 5 min
World Bank’s ‘Mobilizing Finance for Development’ not financing development
WB sd resume traditional multilateral development bank role of mobilizing funds at minimal cost to finance developing countries
507 views0 comments
- Aug 18, 2020
- 4 min
ISDS enables making more money from losses
Predatory international law firms are encouraging multimillion-dollar investor-state dispute settlement lawsuits citing Covid-19.
198 views0 comments
- Aug 11, 2020
- 4 min
CPTPP Trade Liberalization Charade Continues
CPTPP has not slowed growing trade protectionism.
182 views0 comments
- Aug 7, 2020
- 5 min
Multilateral Bank Intermediation Must Help Developing Countries' Recovery
Developing countries would need more than the earlier estimated US$2.5 trillion to provide relief.
39 views0 comments
- Jul 30, 2020
- 5 min
Only Governments Can Prevent Covid-19 Recessions Becoming Depressions
Governments must revive economies and livelihoods to prevent Covid-19 recessions from becoming protracted depressions.
587 views0 comments
- Jul 28, 2020
- 4 min
Fight Pandemic, Not Windmills of the Mind
Recovery from the Covid-19 recessions of the first half of 2020 is expected to be more gradual than previously forecast.
107 views0 comments
- Jul 23, 2020
- 5 min
Covid-19 Compounds Developing Country Debt Burdens
Covid-19 is expected to take a heavy human and economic toll on developing countries.
98 views0 comments
- Jul 16, 2020
- 5 min
Covid-19 Cannot Be Defeated by a Divided World
Why it has been "difficult for humans to unite and fight a common enemy that is killing people indiscriminately?"
164 views0 comments
- Jul 16, 2020
- 1 min
New free book: Vulnerable: The law, policy and ethics of Covid-19
The vulnerabilities that have been revealed by the pandemic and its consequences.
15 views0 comments
- Jul 2, 2020
- 5 min
Rethink Food Security and Nutrition Following Covid-19 Pandemic
Good nutrition and food safety are necessary for healthy societies and future progress
45 views0 comments
- Jun 16, 2020
- 5 min
Reviving the Economy, Creating the ‘new Normal'
The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly impacted most economies
12 views0 comments