The new international financial architecture can help African countries benefit from globalization, while minimizing …

integration and improved real prospects are mutually reinforcing. Third, financial integration predicts globalization but the …

Financial globalization was off to a rocky start in emerging economies hit by Sudden Stops in the 1990s. The surge in … assets via business cycle volatility, financial globalization, and endogenous Sudden Stops. Our results show that financial … globalization and Sudden Stop risk are plausible explanations of the surge in reserves but cyclical volatility, which has declined …

In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international … outcomes during the recent period of globalization. Developing countries have, by and large, been shut out of this benefit. The … why emerging markets have not been able to realize this presumed benefit of financial globalization. In particular, our …

We examine the relationship between trade and financial globalization and the rise in inequality in most countries in … recent decades. We find technological progress as having a greater impact than globalization on inequality. The limited … overall impact of globalization reflects two offsetting tendencies: whereas trade globalization is associated with a reduction …