EghtesadOnline: China will ask 28 world leaders to sign on to President Xi Jinping’s signature initiative on globalization, bolstering a range of Chinese foreign policy objectives, according to people familiar with the draft communique. Not everyone is yet in agreement.
EghtesadOnline: Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli told a gathering of Asian leaders that the world must commit to multilateral free trade under the World Trade Organization and needs to reform global economic governance.
EghtesadOnline: Globalization is changing and is slowly being replaced by a multipolar world, research by Credit Suisse Research Institute revealed.
EghtesadOnline: Globalization is good. That's the message leaders of developing countries want to send from the Davos forum to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office on Friday.
EghtesadOnline: The year belonged to people like Bill Heinzelman, a retiree from Wisconsin, and Lucien Durand, a farmer in southeastern France.
EghtesadOnline: Changing technologies and globalization have put a premium on completing a college education in order to get and keep higher-paying jobs, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Monday.
EghtesadOnline: For the anti-globalization crowd, the good news just keeps coming. If you're a defender of freer trade, now would be a good time to start worrying.
EghtesadOnline: Even before the final communique is drafted for the annual G20 summit the leaders of the world’s largest economies already seemed to agree on their most pressing priority: to find a way to sell the benefits of globalization to an increasingly skeptical public.
EghtesadOnline: Globalization has rendered the mainstream thinking among Iran’s politicians obsolete. Iran needs to shift away from its traditional model of pushing for self-reliance in catering to all its needs and reduce state intervention.
EghtesadOnline: Emerging economies have converged with richer countries over the past decade, and so have their equity markets.