globalisation

Chinese President Xi Jinping in a phone call with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, called for joint efforts to promote a multi-polar world and economic globalisation, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday. French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese President Xi Jinping ...

He will also speak on how American leaders are currently trying to cope with an unraveling of world order in a more globalized world in this event sponsored by the WACQC, a non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to foster global education and international understanding within the Quad ...

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.—The world is flat, make that flatter, compared to just a couple of decades ago. That has both positive and negative implications when it comes to managing disease and care on a global level. This was the conclusion of a panel discussion Monday afternoon at Fortune's Brainstorm ...

To fully understand what this means, one must break down the structure of globalisation. Essentially, globalisation involves trade-offs, as do all other economic policy decisions. Dani Rodrick, Professor of international political economy at Harvard University explains this through what he calls the trilemma of ...

History will have its little jokes. It is roughly a generation since the collapse of the Soviet Union – the ideological empire that was built on fear of domination by global capitalism. Only now, a quarter of a century later, is its analysis apparently being borne out. Somewhere in Marxist heaven, there must be wry ...

Recent research has shown that international trade can lead to job losses in some sectors and areas within a country and gains in others, and it can also affect the countrywide level of wage inequality across workers. These side effects of globalisation have fuelled populist responses in Europe and the ...

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"And I think if there's job disruption in this country, 10, 15 years ago it was probably due to globalization but today it's more likely to be technology-enabled disruption." "That's the reason," he added, "we're talking about how important trade is, how important immigration is. Those are likely opportunities for ...

As I reach the end of my time at CSUSM, I've become aware of a common theme in the majority of the courses I've taken. This theme is currently being explored in a course I'm taking called “Perspectives in Globalization,” and it can be stated quite simply: the world is changing faster, and in newer ways, ...

The international experiment typically referred to as “globalization” isn't a sterile set of enhancements to industrial efficiency. It's a political doctrine. Its terms were controversial when they were ratified in the 1990s with the establishment of the World Trade Organization, but the project was charged with very ...

Those who argue that inclusion can only be improved through making it harder to do business – such as restricting access to capital, making it harder to employ people, or increasing taxes on whoever in society someone feels like blaming for the negative impacts of globalisation – need to think again about ...

Large multinational companies still seem to be the greatest beneficiaries of a globalized marketplace. Small and medium-sized businesses, which constitute the bulk of the world's economy and drive most job creation, find it more difficult to make valuable connections that can lead to international trade ...

Three beliefs about globalization have propagated since the early 1980s. First, that globalization leads to a reduction in global inequality. Second, that high income growth among the richest will lift the incomes of the poorest. Third, that there is no alternative to rising inequality without turning our backs on ...

Becoming an Emeritus Distinguished Professor at UNC is just one of the accomplishments in the illustrious political and academic career of Bereket Habte Selassie. Selassie, an Eritrean activist and a prominent scholar of African studies and law, held a book launch party at Bull's Head Bookshop on ...

This week three Chinese investors made headlines for their efforts to “go global.” Stories of the two that made the biggest splash—Anbang Insurance Group and Sino IC Fund—are cautionary tales. But the third, involving automaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, appears to be a success story, and that ...

At the 2017 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland—on a panel called “Squeezed and Angry”— hedge fund guru Ray Dalio set out the new direction of the global economy. “We may be at a point where globalization is ending and where provincialism and nationalism are taking hold,” he said.

We are living in a time of mounting societal discontent and political divisiveness—a “fractured world,” as captured in the theme of the recent World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. In many countries, social disaffection with economic outcomes is up sharply, roiling the political landscape and stoking ...

The advocates of the open/closed theory frequently argue that professional people—that is people like them—are more comfortable with globalisation because they are more educated. Education makes them more able to sell themselves on the global market and more able to retrain when the economy ...

Confidence in globalization saw massive amounts of Western capital and intellectual property flow to emerging markets, above all to China. But few in the West registered the geopolitical significance of this at the time. Instead, they praised the economic growth story. And not without good reason: the ...