Just as climate change worsens existing vulnerabilities such as food poverty and water shortages, trade amplifies weaknesses in the social fabric. In regions where people have fallen behind ...

Globalisation is a political system that defined how governments ran markets and societies, and how they engaged with each other and with networked global institutions that they had established. It ...

For nearly three decades, globalisation was treated as an inevitability – a one-way street paved by falling tariffs, global ...

PUBLICATION of this survey had originally been intended to coincide with the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, scheduled for September 29th-30th in Washington, DC.

According to him, the model prioritised offshoring production and far-shoring supply chains, which ultimately left America ...

The ripple effects of the Russo-Ukrainian war are spreading and intensifying. Their impact is being felt in almost every corner of the globe, revealing an international system under duress. The US-led ...

Trump administration says offshoring hollowed out Western economies and urges focus on sovereignty and domestic industry ...

The term globalisation has gained resonance in daily discourse as it continues to affect many societies. It has become so entrenched in our daily lives that one may wonder, why an intellectual ...

The world’s best days for economic globalisation are behind it forever, and the US’ “ideologicalised” industrial subsidies are bound to fail, warns an outspoken former Chinese finance minister as ...

Kenneth Thomas, the Middle Class Political Economist, has a series on whether Globalisation benefits the (American) middle class. His answer is that generally it doesn't, a conclusion that I disagree ...

The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization. By Richard Baldwin. Belknap; 329 pages; $29.95 and £22.95. BILL CLINTON once called globalisation “the economic equivalent of a ...

Donald Trump’s Davos address underscored a decisive shift in US economic thinking, with protectionism, energy nationalism and ...