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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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Should BRICS+ Lead the Global South ?
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Nurina Malek 29/06/26
Leadership of the Global South has gradually declined since the 1980s. Many hope BRICS+ will fill the vacuum, but its purpose and membership suggest such hopes may be misplaced. A repurposed Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) offers the best way forward. (…)
New Geopolitics Threatens More Food Crises
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 09/06/26
Recent geopolitical trends threaten more food crises, especially in developing countries. A new IPES-Food report urges a strategy of ‘resilient self-reliance’, proposing available opportunities to improve equity, sustainability and solidarity. (…)
Food Systems and Policies Undermining Food Security
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Felice Noelle Rodriguez 12/05/26
Transnational agribusinesses increasingly shape food policies worldwide. Claiming to best address recent food security concerns, they seek to profit more from innovations in food production, processing, and distribution. Post-war food security (…)
Trade Liberalisation Undermines Development
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 10/02/26
Despite lacking both evidence and theory, many economists claim trade liberalisation accelerates development. But only a few economies have gained many jobs from external market access. Instead, most economies have experienced greater (…)
Trump De-dollarisation Accelerant
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 06/01/26
While US President Donald Trump has blamed the BRICS and foreign investors for de-dollarisation, his rhetoric, actions and policy measures are mainly responsible for the trend’s recent acceleration. Threats and reactions Although Trump is not (…)
World Must Pay to Make America Great Again
Jomo Kwame Sundaram 26/11/25
US President Trump’s economic strategy for his second term aims to get the rest of the world, especially its wealthy allies with greater means, to pay more to help strengthen the US economy. Recent US initiatives have undoubtedly accelerated (…)
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 (…)