Stagflation: From tragedy to farce
Stagflation: From tragedy to farc Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. Half a century after the 1970s’...
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April Fool’s inflation medicine threatens progress
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. The world economy is on the brink of outright recession, according to the...
Neo-colonial currency enables French exploitation
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. Colonial-style currency board arrangements have enabled continuing...
Africa taken for ‘neo-colonial’ ride
Africa taken for ‘neo-colonial’ ride Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. Like so many others, Africans have...
Reject CPTPP, stay out of new Cold War
Reject CPTPP, stay out of new Cold Wa Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury KUALA LUMPUR. Joining or ratifying dubious trade deals is...
Aid for power in new Cold War
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. Long a means for powerful nations to influence developing countries,...
Weaponizing free trade agreements
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. Long seen as means to seek advantage on the pretext of providing mutual...
Climate hypocrisy ensures global warming
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Rich country governments claim the high moral ground on climate action....
OECD’s regressive world corporate income tax reform
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: After decades of rejecting international tax cooperation under...
US leads sanctions killing millions to no end
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury KUALA LUMPUR & SYDNEY: Food crises, economic stagnation and price increases are worsening...
When saviours are the problem
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Central bank policies have often worsened economic crises instead of...
Finance drives world to stagflation
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. The world is being pressed by financial interests to raise interest...
Sri Lankan economic crisis inflicted by self-serving elite
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. Once deemed a basic human needs success story, Sri Lanka (SL) is now in...
China debt traps in the new Cold War
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. As China increases lending to other developing countries, ‘debt trap’...
Deepening stagflation: Out of the frying pan into the fire
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: The world is sailing into a perfect storm as key leaders seem intent on...