Allow least developed countries to develop
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. The pandemic is pushing back the world’s poorest countries with the least...
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Prioritising profits reversed health progress
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Instead of a health system striving to provide universal healthcare, a...
Privatised health services worsen pandemic
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Decades of public health cuts have quietly taken a huge human toll, now...
Central banks must address pandemic challenges
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Hopes for an inclusive global economic recovery are fast fading. As rich...
Beware UN Food Systems Summit Trojan Horse
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR: Undoubtedly, the world needs to reform existing food systems to better serve humanity and sustainable...
European duplicity undermines anti-pandemic efforts
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Despite facing the world’s worst pandemic of the last century, rich...
Rich country hypocrisy exposed by vaccine inequities
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: ‘No one is protected from the global pandemic until everyone is’ has...
Developing country solidarity needed to overcome pandemic
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY: As rich countries have delayed contagion containment, including mass...
Myths, lobbies block international tax cooperation
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Too many have swallowed the myth that lowering corporate income tax (CIT)...
Boldly finance recovery to build forward better
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: COVID-19 has become a “developing country pandemic”, retreating from the...
Paltry international support for spending needs sets South further back
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. With the pandemic setting back past, modest and uneven progress, huge...
Pandemic relief policies need more resources, better design
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR. Pandemic relief measures in developing countries have been limited by...
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...
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
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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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