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...
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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...
Greed-driven pandemic still killing millions
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Nazihah Noor KUALA LUMPUR: Failure to vaccinate most in poor countries sustains the COVID-19 pandemic. Rich...
Climate change: Adapt for the future, not the past
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Funding for developing countries to address global warming is grossly...
Profiting from the carbon offset distraction
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Carbon offset markets allow the rich to emit as financial intermediaries...
WTO finished without TRIPS waiver
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY: Quickly enabling greater and more affordable production of and access to...
Carbon tax over-rated
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Addressing global warming requires cutting carbon emissions by almost...
Will Glasgow fix broken climate finance promises?
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Current climate mitigation plans will result in a catastrophic 2.7°C...
Bleak prospects for least developed countries
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: “The outlook for LDCs is grim”. The latest United Nations (UN) assessment...
Inflation bogey blocking recovery
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: The bogey of inflation has been revived. Dubious pre-pandemic economic...
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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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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