CODESRIA Bulletin, No 2, 2023 - Special Issue: Reflections by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Anis Chowdhury and Others

Abstract

In this Issue

Editorial

Godwin R. Murunga & Amy Niang ...........................................3

Éditorial

Godwin R. Murunga & Amy Niang ..........................................5

1. How to Sustainably Finance Universal Healthcare

Mary Suma Cardosa, Chan Chee Khoon, Chee Heng Leng and Jomo Kwame Sundaram......................7

2. Pandemic Relief Policies Need More Resources, Better Design

Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.....................9

3. IMF, World Bank Must Urgently Help to Finance Developing Countries

Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.................11

4. Why Some National Healthcare Systems Do Better than Others

Vladimir Popov and Jomo Kwame Sundaram....................14

5. European Duplicity Undermines Anti-Pandemic Efforts

Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.................17

6. Intellectual Property Cause of Death, Genocide

Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury.................21

7. Intellectual Property Monopolies Block Vaccine Access

Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram..................23

8. Climate Change: Adapt for the Future, Not the Past

Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram..................27

9. Struggle for the Future of Food

Jomo Kwame Sundaram...............................................................29

10. Another False Start in Africa Sold with Green Revolution Myths

Timothy A. Wise and Jomo Kwame Sundaram....................31

11. Green Counter-Revolution in Africa?

Jomo Kwame Sundaram................................................................33

12. Milton Friedman Versus Stakeholder Capitalism

Jomo Kwame Sundaram...............................................................35

13. Boldly Finance Recovery to Build Forward Better

Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram..................37

14. World Bank Urges Governments to Guarantee Private Profits

Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury..................41

15. Is Development for the World Bank Mainly Doing Business?

Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram..................43

16. Stop Blaming Industrial Policy

Vladimir Popov and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.....................45

17. Financialisation: Tackling the Other Virus

Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Michael Lim Mah Hui....48

18. Progressive Taxation for Our Times

Jomo Kwame Sundaram......................................................51

19. Myths, Lobbies Block International Tax Cooperation

Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram...............53

20. Meritocracy Legitimises, Deepens Inequality

Jomo Kwame Sundaram...............................................................57