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...
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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...
Nothing to Learn from East Asia?
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR: Covid-19 infection and death rates in the Western world and many developing countries in Asia and Latin...
TNCs reviving TPP Frankenstein
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR: The incoming Biden administration is under tremendous pressure to demonstrate better US economic...
2021: Year of living dangerously?
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR: Goodbye 2020, but unfortunately, not good riddance, as we all have to live with its legacy. It has been...
Intellectual property monopolies block vaccine access
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Just before the World Health Assembly (WHA), an 18 May open letter by...
Vision 2020 betrayed: Whither Malaysia?
Jomo K S In three weeks, the year 2020 will end. Incredibly, it has been a year largely devoid of any serious discussion of Vision 2020,...
Urgently needed deficit financing no excuse for more fiscal abuse
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY: Fiscal and monetary measures needed to fight the economic downturn,...
Unconventional measures for extraordinary times no excuse for more abuse
Jomo K. S. Fiscal and monetary measures needed to fight the economic downturn, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and policy response measures,...
Will the new fiscal crises improve international tax cooperation?
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY & KUALA LUMPUR: COVID-19 recessions have hit most countries, requiring massive fiscal...
World Bank urges governments to guarantee private profits
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY: The World Bank has been leading other multilateral development banks...
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AN URGENT CALL: A PEOPLE"S VACCINE AGAINST COVID-19
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An Urgent Call: A People's Vaccine Against Covid-19 (Jomo in minute 9-32; 54-66; 116:40-109:15Covid, medical, economy
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9 June 2020: IHD-ILO-ISLE Virtual Conference - Day 2
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Learning in Governance in times of COVID-19
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Why did the West not learn from the examples of good governance in Kerala and East Asia? What are local and national administrations learning from this pandemic in terms of the governance of migrants and the urban poor? In this end-of-Trinity edition of the COVID-19 Talks, we will have a special panel composed by former UN Assistant Secretary-General Jomo Kwame Sundaram, social policy researcher Mukta Naik, and MPP student Isabela Blumm. They will present on the varied experiences in COVID governance of Western nations, India, and Brazil and discuss how governments and relevant social actors are changing and adapting due to the challenges of COVID-19.Entertainment
Beyond the Lockdown: Towards the ‘New Normal’
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Global Pandemic Webinar Series: Economics and the Threat of Recession
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Focusing on economics and the threat of global recession in light of the Covid-19 crisis, this webinar featured three expert speakers considering the following topics: Potential depression and recovery forecasted Emerging economic models – analysing crisis impact Global supply chains explained Production, trade, and work – imagining a post-crisis world Our three expert speakers: Jomo Kwame Sundaram, former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development. James K. Galbraith, an economist and professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, former advisor to the Sanders presidential campaign. Vladimir Popov, former senior advisor at the UN dept. for Economic and Social Affairs and current research director at the DOC. Find out more about the webinar series: https://doc-research.org/2020/04/global-pandemic-way-forward/News & Politics
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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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