Jomo Kwame Sundaram was Assistant Director-General and Coordinator for Economic and Social Development in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and received the 2007 Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.
Given more than a decade of stagnant and falling incomes across the developed world, policymakers in advanced economies may want to reconsider growth policies based on free trade. Meanwhile, policymak… read more
Ending hunger and poverty in a sustainable way, as world leaders promised to do last September, is morally right, politically beneficial, and economically feasible. The upcoming High-Level Political F… read more
While the Trans-Pacific Partnership might help the US to advance its goal of containing China’s influence in the Asia-Pacific region, the economic case is not nearly as strong. In fact, the TPP will p… read more
Being overweight or obese is now linked to 2.8 million deaths annually, via associated non-communicable diseases like type-2 diabetes, various cancers, and cardiovascular disease. Clearly, this is a s… read more
Contrary to popular belief, there is little evidence that implementing good-governance reforms leads to more rapid and inclusive economic and social development. In fact, the focus on governance refor… read more
Despite ongoing efforts to catalyze global development cooperation, there have been significant obstacles to progress in recent years. Fortunately, with major international meetings set for the second… read more
Though great strides have been made toward the Millennium Development Goal of halving the proportion of undernourished people in developing countries, the problem remains pervasive. The challenge is n… read more
Emerging economies have been pursuing policies with little regard for the lessons of recent financial crises. Countries like India, Brazil, South Africa, and Indonesia have been hit by the Fed’s gradu… read more
Despite some progress, the world has a long way to go to eradicate hunger. A new report – published jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Fund for Agricultural Developmen… read more
