Remember the good life during the 1970s? If you do, your experience is not likely to have been a typical one. In fact, the economic liberalization and globalization that started in the late 1970s and ...

Free trade is under greater attack today than it has been in decades, especially in the United States. Despite continued public support for foreign trade and globalization generally (even during the ...

Globalization can lead to better health but also to increased income inequality, depending on what kind of globalization we are talking about. Economists have studied the connections between ...

II. Gender Equality in the Context of Globalization, Trade Liberalization and the UN Development Agenda Over the last two decades, trade policy in most countries has been geared towards trade ...

One of the key processes in the development of the world economy on the verge of the 20th – 21st centuries is progressive globalization, i.e. a qualitatively new stage in the development of the ...

While freer trade makes everyone collectively richer, the impacts are unequal. There are winners and losers, and even among the winners there are some who gain a great deal and some who gain very ...

A fundamental issue in undertaking capital account liberalization is how to reap the benefits from capital market access while coping safely with the risks associated with international capital flows.

Financial globalization is here to stay and all countries, essentially, are affected by it to varying degrees. Advanced countries have seen the most rapid increases in financial flows over the past ...

A poster of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit at Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu, Hawaii November 7, 2011. (Yuriko Nakao/Courtesy Reuters) As U.S. President Obama heads to ...

Mr. Bokat-Lindell is a staff editor. This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on Wednesdays. In a letter to shareholders last week, Larry Fink, the chief ...