Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world's population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in … half. How much of that improvement is because of-or in spite of-globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount … loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization's perils and promises, economists have largely remained …

controlling for these factors, we find that greater exposure to globalization shaped the pattern of regional industrialization in …We use new data on manufacturing in Canada to quantify the impact of globalization on the growth and composition of … industrialization in the second half of the nineteenth century. We find that industries and regions more exposed to international trade …

climatic changes on economic activity throughout the world. We find three primary results. First, higher temperatures …

that accelerated even more up to 1950-1975. What explains the spread of the industrial revolution world-wide and this … to have taken resource advantages away from the European and North American leaders, and integrating world financial …