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...
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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...
Rich Distort Climate Problems, Offer Self-Serving Solutions
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Yin Shao Loong KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov 29 2023 (IPS) - Many in the wealthy West have misrepresented the...
IPEF: New Cold War Weapon Backfires
By Ong Kar Jin and Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov 15 2023 (IPS) - US President Joe Biden’s Indo-Pacific Framework for...
UN financing appeal last hope for SDGs and climate?
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, August 30, 2023 (IPS). The United Nations Secretary-General’s Dialogue on Financing for Development on...
Inflation phobia, myths and dogmaexacerbate policy responses
Anis Chowdhury, Western Sydney University, Australia Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Khazanah Research Institute, Malaysia from the Review of...
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UN Must Reclaim Multilateral Governance from Pretenders
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug 24 2023 (IPS) - International governance arrangements are in trouble. Condemned as...
World Bank Climate Finance Plan Little Help, Unfair
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Khoo Wei Yang The World Bank plans to use public funds to subsidize private finance, ostensibly to mobilize...
Mining Revenues Undermined
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug 9 2023 (IPS) - The primary commodity price boom early this century has often been...
Government Health Financing for All, Not Insurance
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Nazihah Noor KUALA LUMPUR and BERN, Aug 2 2023 (IPS) - To achieve universal health coverage, people need...
Exchange Rate Movement Due to Interest Rates, Speculation, Not Fundamentals
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jul 26 2023 (IPS) - Currency values and foreign exchange rates change for many reasons,...
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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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