Building back global trade
Ever since May 2023, when the 14-member Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) reached an agreement on strengthening the resilience of global supply chains — a crucial aspect of the framework’s second…
Global economic crisis: Neoliberalism, debt sustainability, SDRs, and multilateralism
The global economy is facing existential threats of climate change and Pandemicene crises. The underlying basis for the perpetuation and hastening of both the crises is Neoliberalism. Here, it needs…
Under Anwar, Malaysia can ‘do better’ on climate, using global funds
To help Malaysia head off frequent floods and choking air pollution caused by forest fires, new Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim should tap more global green funding to protect nature and…
Global Covid-19 response
Politicians in rich countries are trying to ‘move on’ from the pandemic; to manipulate the emotional fatigue of the public and tell them what they want to hear: that this…
Coal rush! Energy crisis fires global hunt for polluting fuel
The sleepy Tanzanian port of Mtwara mainly dealt in cashew nuts until late last year. Now it bustles with vessels loading up with coal, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drives…
Asia’s southern flank shines in fight vs surging dollar
Asia’s central banks, alarmed by the surging dollar’s assault on their currencies, are ramping up their resistance with rate rises and market interventions, but it’s the relatively vulnerable economies of…
Global food security
Since the 2014 Crimean annexation, Russia has focused on claiming and invading the sovereign territory of Ukraine. The slow annexation of Ukraine started with the funding of Russian-backed separatist fighter…
Global action
My professor Dan Schrag taught us a valuable lesson: climate change is a global problem and requires collective global action. He would stress that we should not address emissions in…
Acute food inflation and a shallow global policy leadership response
The ‘Food security’ update recently released by World Bank indicated a very difficult food inflation situation globally, whereby it pointed out: ‘Information from the latest month between March and June…
Global economic players’ dismal policy action
International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently released the July 2022 update of one of its flagship reports ‘World Economic Outlook’ (WEO). The title ‘Gloomy and more uncertain’ of the report for…
