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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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Data Centre Investments Bad Deals
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, K. Kuhaneetha Bai 28/10/25
Opposition to data centres (DCs) has been rapidly spreading internationally due to their fast-growing resource demands. DCs have been proliferating quickly, driven by the popularity of artificial intelligence (AI). Who are data centres for ? (...)
No African Development from Western Trade Policies
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, K. Kuhaneetha Bai 07/10/25
The World Bank’s 1981 Berg Report provided the blueprint for structural adjustment, including economic liberalisation in Africa. Urging trade liberalisation, it promised growth from its supposed comparative advantage in agriculture. Berg (...)
North Worsens Tropical Catastrophe
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 09/09/25
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have risen over the last two centuries, with current and accumulated emissions per capita from rich nations greatly exceeding those of the Global South. Tropical vulnerability The last six millennia have seen (...)
A New Non-Alignment for the Global South
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 28/08/25
The Global South had little voice, let alone influence, in shaping the economically ‘neoliberal’ and politically ‘neoconservative’ globalisation leading to contemporary geopolitical economic conflicts. Pacifist non-aligned cooperation for (...)
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 (...)