What is globalization anyway? | World Economic Forum
2017年1月10日 · Globalization – a phenomenon that has defined the world's economy in recent decades – is under pressure. As Donald Trump prepares for his tenure in the White House, he talks of dismantling a whole history of globalized trade that he sees as having had a catastrophic effect on the global economy.
A brief history of globalization | World Economic Forum
2019年1月17日 · In a world increasingly dominated by two global powers, the US and China, the new frontier of globalization is the cyber world. The digital economy, in its infancy during the third wave of globalization, is now becoming a force to reckon with through e-commerce, digital services, 3D printing.
Globalization isn't finished – it can unlock new growth and beat …
2024年10月15日 · The era of growing globalization between 1960 and the beginnings of the Global Financial Crisis in 2006-2007 reflected a positive-sum belief that globalization – including open markets, trade and cross-border flows of physical, intangible and financial capital – would produce net benefits. All nations could be winners.
An economist explains the pros and cons of globalization
2019年4月11日 · As we enter the fourth wave of globalization, driven by the digital revolution, there is renewed debate over whether it is a beneficial force: powering economic growth, and allowing the spread of ideas to improve people’s lives; or whether it erodes communities, and widens the gap between the elites and the rest of the world.
What's 'bi-globalization' and could this be the near future for geo ...
5 天之前 · Today’s geo-economic bi-globalization takes place in the shadow of geopolitical bipolarity. The USA-China bipolarity is restructuring the world economy. Geo-economics – geopolitical competition in the economic domain – will define the years to come. In a bipolar rivalry, great powers will view economic interdependency as geopolitical ...
Is globalization dying? An economic historian weighs up the …
2024年8月2日 · Globalization has brought very different levels of gain, not only across social groups but across countries. “For the vast majority of Americans, globalization has not been a winning story,” Tooze explained, talking audience members through the following figure that depicts globalization-induced GDP gain across 45 countries.
Why the world needs better - not less - globalization
The globalization of the future will centre on East Asia, which accounts for half of the world’s population and is the fastest-growing economic region. The rapid recovery of this region from the COVID-19 crisis and the November 2020 Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership of 14 Asia-Pacific economies will reinforce its rising economic and ...
Globalization 4.0 | World Economic Forum
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Are we heading towards re-globalization, not deglobalization?
2023年3月15日 · The latest DHL Global Connectedness Index sees the resilience of global flows as a strong foundation for ‘re-globalization’, in which globalization is reformed to make it work better for everyone. While there are threats to globalization, the report says, there is limited evidence of a fracturing of the world economy into rival blocs.
When did globalization begin? The answer might surprise you
2019年1月16日 · The obsession with globalization in its contemporary form has meant that the entire debate around it lacks awareness of its previous forms across time and space. This has led to the simplistic assumptions that globalization, firstly, entails the rise of the West and the fall of the East and, secondly, has been mainly driven by technology.