Globalization, a "Devastating Success" Part 2 The Real News Network go to original October 20, 2009
Jomo K.S.: New type of protectionism will use a guise of saving the environment or fight for human rights Go to | Part One | Part Two | Part Three
Paul Jay speaks with Jomo K.S. about the change in production patterns all over the world as a result of globalization. Bio: Jomo Kwame Sundaram, better known as Jomo KS, is a prominent Malaysian economist, who is currently serving as the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). He was also the founder chair of International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs), and sat on the Board of the United Nations Research Institute For Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva. Jomo is a leading scholar and expert on the political economy of development, especially in Southeast Asia, who has authored over 35 monographs, edited over 50 books and translated 12 volumes besides writing many academic papers and articles for the media.He is on the editorial boards of several learned journals. In 2007, he was awarded the Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.