“Peace is the natural effect of trade,” wrote Montesquieu in 1748. Alas, his faith is proving misplaced, says Guillaume de Calignon in Les Echos. The globalisation of the past few decades has not ...

Globalization “isn’t the only, or even the real, story of international economics over the past four decades,” writes Shannon K. O’Neil in her latest book The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter.

In the mid-1920s, the mood in the United States was buoyant. After years of surging economic growth, fuelled by expansion in the automobile industry and speculation in financial markets, the United ...

Over the past 25 years there has been lots of research and debate about the concept, the history and state of globalisation, its various dimensions and benefits. The World Economic Forum has set out ...

“We are suffering just now from a bad attack of economic pessimism,” wrote John Maynard Keynes in 1930, in the midst of a disintegrating global economy. He went on to describe the much better future ...

Globalization continues—the widespread predictions of its death were wildly premature. But this is nothing to celebrate. The current round of globalization is in fact largely the product of “unhealthy ...

It was in 2014 that many were introduced to the term ‘conscious uncoupling,’ a term originally coined by sociologist Diane Vaughan, when Gwyneth Paltrow announced her separation from Coldplay frontman ...

National economies are increasingly moving in sync and responding to the same booms and busts as a result of near-instantaneous communications and interdependent global supply chains. This is a sharp ...

Global growth is projected at 3.3 percent for 2026 and 3.2 percent for 2027, revised slightly up since the October 2025 World Economic Outlook. Technology investment, fiscal and monetary support, ...

In a long while, I have not seen any event in Nigeria that witnessed a convergence of high-caliber global political and business leaders like the just concluded Imo Economic Summit 2025, held at ...

This report has argued that a profound shift in economic policy is under way. For years politicians have paid lip service to industrial policy and protectionism, and in some cases implemented those ...