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The non-winners in globalization are the Western World's middle classes. ... Get Ready to See This Globalization 'Elephant Chart' Over and Over Again.
The hottest curve in economics right now helps explain the rise of China, the rise of populism in Europe and the rise of Donald Trump. From a global perspective, income inequality has gone down ...
Our Chart of the Week shows that globalization’s effects on a country’s growth depend crucially on how much a nation is already integrated into the global economy. Most low-income and emerging market ...
The horizontal axis shows not time but income levels, from lowest to highest. For example, the second dot on the chart marks the 10th percentile of income, meaning people who outearned just 10% of the ...
The prospect of higher tariffs and other unfriendly trade policies is bad news for everyone exposed. By definition, tariffs ...
This chart is really a Rosetta stone for politics today—and not just in the U.S. Almost every rich country has their own anti-trade, anti-immigrant party. France has the National Front. Britain ...
De-globalization in one chart: IMF expects global trade to collapse by 11.9% this year, the slump would be more than twice as severe as the decline in GDP.
Globalization was the driving force behind the growth miracles in emerging markets, lifting millions of people out of poverty over the past few decades. A chart first published in a 2012 World Bank ...
Our Chart of the Week shows that globalization's effects on a country's growth depend crucially on how much a nation is already integrated into the global economy.
How the resurgence of Asia, globalization is contributing to widening inequality. The hottest curve in economics right now helps explain the rise of China, the rise of populism in Europe and the ...