Jomo Kwame Sundaram

COMMENT | Progressive taxation for our times

COMMENT | Progressive taxation for our times

Pandemic imposed extraordinary demands requiring massive, urgent spending.

COMMENT | European duplicity undermines anti-pandemic efforts

COMMENT | European duplicity undermines anti-pandemic efforts

They are blocking efforts to enable more affordable access to life-saving vaccines.
COMMENT | Soaring vaccine earnings create 9 new billionaires

COMMENT | Soaring vaccine earnings create 9 new billionaires

Rich country hypocrisy is exposed by vaccine inequities.
COMMENT | Developing country solidarity needed to fight pandemic apartheid

COMMENT | Developing country solidarity needed to fight pandemic apartheid

The North now undermines the very globalisation it once imposed on the South.
COMMENT | Paltry support for spending needs sets south further back

COMMENT | Paltry support for spending needs sets south further back

Cooperative efforts to secure much more tests, equipment, treatments and vaccines must be quickly stepped up.
COMMENT | Developing countries desperately need Covid-19 financing

COMMENT | Developing countries desperately need Covid-19 financing

Developing countries need US$50bil to fight Covid, which can bring about US$9trn in economic benefits.
COMMENT | Said Zahari: Unsung Mandela of press freedom

COMMENT | Said Zahari: Unsung Mandela of press freedom

Today, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, let us all salute Said Zahari and his Utusan comrades of 1961.

COMMENT | The Mandela of Malayan journalism

COMMENT | The Mandela of Malayan journalism

Veteran journalist Said Zahari passed away on this day five years ago, aged 87.

COMMENT | IMF, World Bank must support developing countries’ recovery

COMMENT | IMF, World Bank must support developing countries’ recovery

The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed hundreds of millions into extreme poverty and hunger.
COMMENT | UN leadership necessary for fairer tax cooperation

COMMENT | UN leadership necessary for fairer tax cooperation

There is massive wealth theft from developing countries, typically ending up hidden in tax havens.

COMMENT | End vaccine apartheid before millions more die

COMMENT | End vaccine apartheid before millions more die

At least 85 poor nations will not have access to Covid-19 vaccines before 2023.

COMMENT | Caught in a tangled web of vaccine nationalism

COMMENT | Caught in a tangled web of vaccine nationalism

It means that the rich and powerful come first, not only in societies, but also in the world.

COMMENT | Covid-19: Nothing to learn from East Asia?

COMMENT | Covid-19: Nothing to learn from East Asia?

South Korea was the first country to dramatically reduce the number of Covid-19 cases and related deaths...

COMMENT | Intellectual property monopolies block vaccine access

COMMENT | Intellectual property monopolies block vaccine access

As the rich and powerful secure access, poor countries will leave out most people as only one in ten can be vaccinated in 2021.
COMMENT | This year of living dangerously

COMMENT | This year of living dangerously

COMMENT | American behaviour, specifically its president, suggests that a conflict is more likely to be provoked in South or Southeast Asia.

MPs our last defence from TPPA own-goal

MPs our last defence from TPPA own-goal

A rare opportunity to unite across party lines.