COVID-19 compounding inequalities
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Economic trends and what’s important in life
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Finance Covid-19 Relief and Recovery, Not Debt Buybacks
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Limited liability: Profit without responsibility
Limited liability protection has encouraged irresponsibility, causing much harm while generating profits without responsibility
Limited liability: Profit without responsibility
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Milton Friedman versus stakeholder capitalism
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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).
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He received the 2007 Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.
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In The Media
 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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