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...
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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...
War or peace, barbarism or hope
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: The spectre of ‘stagflation’ threatens the world once again. This time,...
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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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