Globalization is the big story of our era. It is shaping not just economies, but societies, polities, and international relations. Many assume it is also, for good or ill, an unstoppable force.

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced in the International Monetary Fund on topical issues. The raw ...

Speaking about the ongoing processes, the Russian leader remembered the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, adding that he was "a brilliant diplomat" MOSCOW, December 7. /TASS/. Global ...