Better late than never, but act now
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR: The world should now be more aware of likely COVID-19 devastation unless urgently checked. Last week,...
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Stop new Washington putsch
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR. As finance ministers and central bank governors gather next week for the IMF-World Bank annual meetings...
Biden disappoints, must do more, not less
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR: US President Biden’s earlier support for a vaccine patent waiver raised hopes for his summit last week....
Progressive Taxation for Our Times
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR: As developing countries struggle to cope with the pandemic, they risk being set back further by...
Food Systems Summit’s scientistic threat
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR: Timely interventions by civil society, including concerned scientists, have prevented many likely...
End vaccine apartheid
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Vaccine costs have pushed many developing countries to the end of the...
Allow least developed countries to develop
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. The pandemic is pushing back the world’s poorest countries with the least...
Prioritising profits reversed health progress
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Instead of a health system striving to provide universal healthcare, a...
Privatised health services worsen pandemic
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Decades of public health cuts have quietly taken a huge human toll, now...
Central banks must address pandemic challenges
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Hopes for an inclusive global economic recovery are fast fading. As rich...
Beware UN Food Systems Summit Trojan Horse
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR: Undoubtedly, the world needs to reform existing food systems to better serve humanity and sustainable...
European duplicity undermines anti-pandemic efforts
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Despite facing the world’s worst pandemic of the last century, rich...
Rich country hypocrisy exposed by vaccine inequities
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: ‘No one is protected from the global pandemic until everyone is’ has...
Developing country solidarity needed to overcome pandemic
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY: As rich countries have delayed contagion containment, including mass...
Myths, lobbies block international tax cooperation
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Too many have swallowed the myth that lowering corporate income tax (CIT)...
Boldly finance recovery to build forward better
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: COVID-19 has become a “developing country pandemic”, retreating from the...
Paltry international support for spending needs sets South further back
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. With the pandemic setting back past, modest and uneven progress, huge...
Pandemic relief policies need more resources, better design
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. Pandemic relief measures in developing countries have been limited by...