Developing countries desperately need COVID-19 financing
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. Failure to sufficiently accelerate comprehensive efforts to contain...
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Put people before profits for progress
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR – Millions of people are expected to die due to delayed and unaffordable access to COVID-19 tests,...
US support for vaccine waiver welcome, but more needed
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR -- Thanks to President Biden, the US now supports a suspension of intellectual property (IP) rights to...
CORRECTED VERSION: Struggle for the Future of Food
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR - Producers and consumers seem helpless as food all over the world comes under fast growing corporate...
Struggle for the future of food
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR. Producers and consumers seem helpless as food all over the world comes under fast growing corporate...
Another False Start in Africa Sold with Green Revolution Myths
Timothy A. Wise and Jomo Kwame Sundaram BOSTON and KUALA LUMPUR: Since the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) was launched...
Only Multilateral Cooperation Can Stop Harmful Tax Competition
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has urged all governments to support a...
IMF, World Bank must support developing countries’ recovery
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: The COVID-19 pandemic continues to take an unprecedented human and...
UN leadership necessary for fairer tax cooperation
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Illicit financial flows (IFFs) hurt all countries, both developed and...
IMF, World Bank must urgently help finance developing countries
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: COVID-19 has set back the uneven progress of recent decades, directly...
End vaccine apartheid before millions more die
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY & KUALA LUMPUR: At least 85 poor countries will not have significant access to coronavirus...
Prioritise pandemic relief, recovery: No time for debt buybacks
Anis Chowdhury, Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY, KUALA LUMPUR: Developing country governments are being wrongly advised to use their modest...
Neoliberal Finance Undermines Poor Countries’ Recovery
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: After being undermined by decades of financial liberalisation, developing...
Developing Countries Struggling To Cope With COVID-19
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is adversely impacting most developing...
IP, vaccine imperialism cause death and suffering, delay recovery
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Vaccine developers’ refusal to share publicly funded vaccine research...
Intellectual property cause of death, genocide
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY: Refusal to temporarily suspend several World Trade Organization (WTO)...
Road to hell paved with good intentions
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR: Access to COVID-19 vaccines for many developing countries and most of their people will have to wait as...
Caught in tangled web of vaccine nationalism
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR: “Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive”. Walter Scott’s lines, already over...