The increasing globalization of economic, social, political, and cultural life is a key feature of the contemporary world. Written by a leading authority, Jan Aart Scholte’s new book provides a ...

The growing integration of the world economy—one of the main features of globalization—is increasingly affecting the policy choices of the IMF's 185 member countries. For this reason, the IMF's ...

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 ...

Reporting from Washington — For decades, financial and political leaders have preached the inevitability of globalization, promising nations that by sacrificing some of their sovereignty and dropping ...

Many prominent critics regard the international financial system as the dark side of globalization, threatening disadvantaged nations near and far. But in The Next Great Globalization, eminent ...

Among those who favor free trade and footloose capital, the lament often heard these days is that we are confronting the end of an era of ever-greater economic integration. Yet the most surprising ...

For retailers, the benefits of globalization extend far and wide. Globalization is undoubtedly complex in nature, but embracing it can enable companies to position themselves for growth and sustained ...

China is using a forum to promote infrastructure-building across a swath of the globe in a bid to reshape the geopolitical world order. Opening a two-day meeting with leaders from 29 countries and ...

Facing mature markets at home and a supplier base becoming ever-more international in scope, the world’s largest grocers are expanding worldwide at a rapid rate. In this just-food management briefing, ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 17, 2017. (Xinhua/Rao Aimin) When China announced that ...