Comment on Social Justice and Affirmative Action in Malaysia: The New Economic Policy after 50 Year
Kwame Sundaram Jomo, Asian Economic Policy Review, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2023, pp 120-121. https://doi.org/10.1111/aepr.12411....
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Needed global financial reforms foregone yet again
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COP27 fiddling as world warms
Hezri A Adnan and Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 15, 2022 (IPS). The latest annual climate conference has begun in the face of a...
Developing countries need monetary financing
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and DAKAR. Nov 01, 2022 (IPS). Developing countries have long been told to avoid borrowing...
Macroeconomic policy coordination more one-sided, ineffective
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and DAKAR. Oct 25, 2022 (IPS). Widespread adverse reactions to the UK government’s recent...
Stop worshiping central banks
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 18, 2022 (IPS) - Preoccupied with enhancing their own ‘credibility’...
Inflation phobia hastens recessions, debt crises
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 27, 2022 (IPS) - Inflation phobia among central banks (CBs) is...
Comment on “Social Justice and Affirmative Action in Malaysia: The New Economic Policy after 50 Year
Kwame Sundaram Jomo, Asian Economic Policy Review Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2023, pp 120-121 https://doi.org/10.1111/aepr.12411. First...
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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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