THE World Bank insists commercial finance is necessary for achieving economic recovery and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but does little to ensure profit-hungry commercial finance serves the ...
FEW policymakers ever claim credit for causing stagnation and recessions. Yet, they do so all the time, justifying their actions by some supposedly higher purpose. That higher purpose is checking inflation ...
MALAYSIANS should ask why former international trade and industry minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali surreptitiously ratified the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership ...
Refusal to temporarily suspend several World Trade Organisation (WTO) intellectual property (IP) provisions to enable much faster and broader progress in addressing the Covid-19 pandemic should be grounds ...
ACCESS to Covid-19 vaccines for many developing countries and most of their people will have to wait as the powerful and better- off secure earlier access regardless of need or urgency.
“Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive”. Walter Scott’s lines, already over two centuries old, nicely sum up how pursuit of national advantage and private gain have undermined ...
Current development fads fetishize data, ostensibly for “evidence-based policy-making”: if not measured, it will not matter. So, forget about getting financial resources for your work, programmes and projects, ...