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...
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- Oct 6, 2020
- 4 min
Stop blaming industrial policy
Pragmatic industrial policy is needed for developing countries and transition economies to ‘catch up’.
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- 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.
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- Sep 22, 2020
- 4 min
‘Populist’ macroeconomic policy
Vladimir Popov, Jomo Kwame Sundaram BERLIN, KUALA LUMPUR: ‘Ethno-populism’ has emerged and spread in recent decades in response to the...
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Aug 13, 2020
- 5 min
Debt hawks detract from urgently needed fiscal recovery efforts
Developing country debt has grown rapidly since the 2008-2009 global financial crisis.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Jul 21, 2020
- 4 min
Dead Rats Can Raise GDP, Economists Have Lowered It
GDP has been increasingly challenged on many grounds as a measure of economic and social progress.
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- Jul 9, 2020
- 5 min
Financialization: Tackling the Other Virus
Financialization has involved reorganizing finance, the economy, and even aspects of society, to enable investors to get more.
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- Jul 7, 2020
- 5 min
Donald Trump, Working Class Hero?
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 7 2020 (IPS) - In his early February annual State of the Union...
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- Jun 25, 2020
- 4 min
The Best Law Capital Can Buy
Katharina Pistor's book, The Code of Capital: how the law creates wealth and inequality.
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- Jun 16, 2020
- 5 min
Reviving the Economy, Creating the ‘new Normal'
The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly impacted most economies
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