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Rethinking Labor Mobility

January 4, 2017
Trade, automation and other facets of globalization have eliminated some careers. One solution is for government to provide an unconditional basic income, but that may not eliminate resentment. Historian Harold James examines how artisans recovered after losing work during the Industrial Revolution...

Peru Still Wary of Garcia’s Past

June 5, 2006
Alan Garcia has been re-elected as president of Peru, despite leaving his country with a 5 percent approval rating and $900 million less in its reserves at the end of his previous term in 1990. Garcia enters office with new plans on changing Peru’s highly stratified society, with its 52 percent...

Terrorists Attacking Mumbai Have Global Agenda

December 8, 2008
The British ended colonial rule in the subcontinent in 1947 by partitioning Pakistan and India, and the two have been antagonists ever since. Despite the tangled history of the two nations, the latest episode of a seaborne assault on 10 targets in Mumbai requires the world to take a fresh look at...

Project Syndicate: The WTO Reborn?

February 23, 2017
The World Trade Organization, a multilateral trade group with 164 members, has been marginalized in recent years due to increasing preference for bilateral and regional deals, explains Arvind Subramanian, chief economic adviser to the government of India in an essay for Project Syndicate. He points...

孩子，中国的未来——上篇

March 12, 2012
在比较平等的社会里，无论穷富，机会的分享让社会凝聚力依然保持强有力。但是不平等加剧的社会则预示着更多的健康问题、不满情绪和贪污腐败。随着国民不平等的扩大，令人警惕的早期迹象往往最明显地体现在孩子身上。耶鲁全球在线本期上下两篇的系列文章分析了中国不断加剧的不平等及其对儿童产生的影响。按照衡量家庭收入分配情况的基尼系数，中国的不平等程度与美国类似，但明显高于除了俄罗斯之外的欧洲多数国家。当然，不平等也帮助了其他人。中国不断增长的海外游客成为遭受全球经济衰退和欧元危机重创的欧洲旅游业和零售业的生命线。记者和作家帕拉维•艾雅尔写在上篇描述了在欧洲旋风游的中国特权子女。孩子通过对比学到很多东西，...

Meant to Promote Cooperation, G20 Meeting Shows Discord

September 6, 2016
Fear is growing that globalization has spun out of control, with too many decisions at the local level left by the wayside. Contending with home-front discontent, leaders of the world’s major economies gathered for the G20 summit, encountering many reminders that nations are part of a global...

Map of International Phone Calls Explains Globalization

November 12, 2014
International phone calls were once limited to wealthy nations. Shipper DHL has released its third edition of global connectedness index that tracks all manner of exchanges between countries, describing it as detailed analysis of the state of globalization. Tim Fernholz focuses on phone calls for...

The Washington Post: The US Ends Temporary Protection Status for 200,000 Salvadorans

January 8, 2018
The Trump administration announced plans to end temporary protected status for about 200,000 Salvadorans who live in the United States, setting a September 2019 deadline for the permit-holders to secure another status or leave.” The permit holders left El Salvador after a 2001 earthquake, and...
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