The world is witnessing growing turbulence stemming from geopolitics and a tangible threat of economic disintegration …. There are some indications of globalization in retreat, international trade growth slowing down and a transition from … various trends around global economic integration and pushing towards de-globalization is extremely difficult. This paper aims …

investment ; globalization ; outsourcing ; technology ; capability ; energy ; trade flows ; inequality and poverty ; technology … recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the … development in a number area where similar trends are observed. The areas studied include globalization, in-sourcing and …

According to Research Associate Thomas I. Palley, global outsourcing represents a new economic challenge that calls for … a new set of institutions. In this brief, he expands upon the problems of offshore outsourcing as outlined in Public … Policy Brief no. 86 and focuses on the microeconomic foundations. He argues that outsourcing is a central element of …

. The paper identifies conditions under which outsourcing to a low-wage country is a "friend" or an "enemy" to domestic …

Economic globalization causes an increasing international fragmentation (disintegration) of value-added-chains, whereby …