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Jomo Kwame Sundaram, a former economics professor, was United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, and received the Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. CETRI Associate Researcher.
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Inequality Worsens Planetary Heating
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 14/08/25
The accumulation of still growing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in an increasingly unequal world is accelerating planetary heating. It is also worsening disparities, especially between the rich and others, both nationally and internationally. (…)
Bullying Southeast Asia with Tariff Threats
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Nadia Malyanah Azman 29/07/25
US President Trump has successfully used tariff threats to achieve economic, political and even personal goals. These threats, reminiscent of colonialism, have secured submission and concessions. Indonesian template ? After hearing the 2024 (…)
Trump Undresses Rival Trade Myths
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 01/07/25
President Trump’s tariffs have exposed neoliberal trade ideology and undermined corporate lobbying in the name of free trade. But his rhetoric has also exposed the fallacies of his economic strategy. Ideological shift ? To be sure, there has (…)
Weaponizing Food Worsens Starvation
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Nadia Malyanah Azman 17/06/25
Wars, economic shocks, planetary heating and aid cuts have worsened food crises in recent years, with almost 300 million people now threatened by starvation. Why hunger ? World food production has increased almost fourfold since 1960. FAO (…)
Can East Asia Show the Way ?
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 03/06/25
With two-fifths of the world economy, East Asia can inspire others by creatively responding to the US President’s tariff challenge by promoting fair, dynamic and peaceful regional cooperation. No winners in economic war Trump’s Liberation Day (…)
Trump Accord Sows Discord in US Empire
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 08/05/25
President Trump has deliberately sown discord worldwide to better serve supposed US interests. He will not cede influence, let alone power and control, to other nations, let alone people. Mar-a-Lago Accord His chief economic adviser, Stephen (…)
Trump Wants World to Subsidise US Empire
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 22/04/25
Donald Trump’s top economic advisor claims the President has weaponised tariffs to ‘persuade’ other nations to pay the US to maintain its supposedly mutually beneficial global empire. Donald Trump’s top economic advisor claims the President has (…)
Malnutrition Not Due to Cash Poverty Alone
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 27/03/25
The World Bank set its US ‘dollar-a-day’ poverty line using its 1990 data. Despite many doubts and criticisms, its poverty numbers fell until the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. Cash measures The Bank claimed credit for reducing poverty in (…)
America First Deepens World Stagnation
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 27/02/25
Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) appeal captured US mass discontent against globalisation. In recent decades, variations of America First have reflected growing ethnonationalism in the world’s presumptive hegemony. Deglobalisation (…)
Imperialism (Still) Rules
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 10/02/25
Many in the West, of the political right and left, now deny imperialism. For some, empires were pre-capitalist atavisms. But even the Economist now sees Trump’s revival of this US legacy. Many in the West, of the political right and left, now (…)