Globalization, as it is known today, has always been a contentious issue. It may not seem that way for people of my age who grew up under unfettered assumptions. The expansion of global trade as the ...

That’s good for businesses, which can communicate efficiently and effectively with partners, suppliers, and customers and manage better supplies, inventories, and distribution network. Local producers ...

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 ...

The seminar examines various features of globalization, defined as the increasingly close integration of markets for commodities, labor, and capital, to provide a background for today's issues. Modern ...

Here's a fact worth reiterating: despite the severe shocks and imbalances that have hit it off and on during the early years of this century, the world economy continues to grow, with low inflation.

Jared Diamond, a geographer at UCLA, is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies." E-mail: [email protected]. We tend to think of ...

“Nayan Chanda gives us in this volume an excellent account, both erudite and entertaining, of the globalization of human interaction. This book vividly portrays the long and sinuous, yet inexorable ...

This informative book provides a survey of how globalization has enabled the spread of disease and of the concurrent development of global public health practices and institutions. Travelers have ...