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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,...
Stagflation threat: Be pragmatic, not dogmatic
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: “If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail”. Still...
Ukraine incursion, world stagflation
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Finger pointing in the blame game over Russia’s Ukraine incursion...
Inflation targeting constrains development
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: All too many developing countries have been persuaded or required to...
Inflation targeting voodoo
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: All over the world, people expect policies by central bankers trained in...
Financialization at heart of economic malaise
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: COVID-19 has exposed major long-term economic vulnerabilities. This...
Resist inflation phobia coup
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Calls, even screams, to fight inflation above all else are getting...
Inflation paranoia threatens recovery
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Inflation hawks are winning the day. The latest ‘beggar thyself’ race to...
Climate inaction, injustice worsened by finance fiasco
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR: Many factors frustrate the international cooperation needed to address the looming global warming...
More progressive taxation needed for social progress
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR: Governments must innovatively develop progressive means to finance the large-scale social spending...
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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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