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 ...

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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 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 ...

Throughout the late 20th and early 21st centuries, globalisation was a dominant economic force, facilitating the free movement of labour, capital, goods and services across borders. Today, the trend ...

Pakistan is now an example of hybrid society as a result of globalisation, trying to find a balance between Islamisation and modernism Advances in technology, such as mobile phones, aero planes and ...

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.

In recent years the world has been rocked by unforeseen and unimaginable global catastrophes. The coronavirus pandemic caused disruptions to global economies as countries closed their borders. Markets ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer, a professor of globalisation and development at Oxford university, is co-author of ‘Terra Incognita ...

In the 1990s, globalisation was often characterised as inevitable and irreversible. Politicians like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair saw it as the unstoppable wave of the future and sought to ride it for ...

The new rallying cry for the anti-capitalists is "globalisation". And you can see their point. Even people who have zero sympathy for the May Day protesters ­ who see them as the spoilt children of ...