The impact of globalization has led to changes in society that would have been unthinkable 40 years ago. Given this new societal atmosphere, the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace will be ...

Explore how globalisation has shaped economic opportunities in Africa, especially in the wake of recent global shocks, and ...

Understanding the many facets and effects of globalization is difficult even for scholars well versed in economics and political science. So to the uninitiated, globalization can seem like an almost ...

The idea of more open, global trade has been sold as necessary for economic success. Yet today we hear calls to “build a wall” and to break up trading partnerships. Turns out we’ve seen the pendulum ...

Two articles in the issue examine the effects of globalization. In “A World on the Edge,” Amy Chua, a Yale University law professor, writes that the push for free markets and democracy in some ...

A recent survey of enterprise executives has found that -- not surprisingly -- IT executives are more averse to globalization than their peers from other departments. The survey, summarized in "The ...

This paper is a sequel to Sirgy et al. (Social Ind. Res. 68(3) (2004) 251), "The Impact of Globalization on a Country's Quality of Life: Toward an Integrated Model" published in Social Indicators ...

More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation This study provides a candid, systematic, and critical review of recent evidence on this complex subject. Based on a review of the ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Over the last 50 years, research activities have become increasingly globalized. Although the advantages of global homogenization and standardization have been extensively discussed, ...

When managers think about what influences their roles, they often think in concrete terms: worker productivity, chain of command, products and services. Even in the smallest businesses, however, ...