The rise in nationalism. Brexit and Trump. Reactionary far-right parties wooing millions of around the world. The facts on the ground are clear: globalisation – and the international economic and political system that has underpinned it for the past half-century – is fracturing.
Our series on Globalisation Under Pressure will both analyse the old international order and surface local stories of finance, migration, jobs, education and culture that show the far-reaching impacts of the change the world is experiencing.
Today, Robert Zeidan explains how two economists anticipated the unequal impact of free trade within countries and what to do about it.
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Is the sun setting on globalisation?
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Rodrigo Zeidan, NYU Shanghai
A fundamental insight into the distributive effects of free trade from almost 90 years ago.
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Environment + Energy
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Issa Abdou Yonlihinza, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey
Gold is both a blessing and a curse for rural Niger.
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Hemant Ojha, UNSW; Eileen Baldry, UNSW; Krishna K. Shrestha, UNSW
Two years after the second earthquake rocked Nepal in 2015, the recovery efforts have been stalled by political instability and money mismanagement.
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Politics + Society
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Shahrashoub Razavi, Institut des hautes études internationales et de développement de Genève
Here's how we can make families work better for women in the 21st century.
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Science + Technology
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Zubair Baig, Edith Cowan University; Nikolai Hampton, Edith Cowan University
Here's how to protect yourself from the latest online scourge of hackers encrypting your files and demanding a ransom to unlock them.
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