' expectations of the economy and the labor market. Neither the UN's Human Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World … Happiness Report from the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last …

A number of economic studies have used a proxy for world real economic activity derived from shipping costs. This … with world output, and ability to predict commodity prices. I conclude that measures derived from world industrial …

/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …-industrial Third World. This paper finds commodity price convergence to have been bigger in the Third World than the Atlantic economy …

never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the … of life deep into the 18th century. Does world market integration breed more or less commodity price volatility? The … been associated with much greater commodity price volatility, while world market integration associated with peace and pro …

The literature on the benefits and costs of financial globalization for developing countries has exploded in recent … perspective on the macroeconomic effects of financial globalization, both in terms of growth and volatility. Overall, our critical … benefit from financial globalization, but with many nuances. On the other hand, there is little systematic evidence to support …

This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of … globalization: trade and international capital flows. Past researchers have argued that global economic integration should help the … evidence suggests that the poor are more likely to share in the gains from globalization when there are complementary policies …

high-productivity activities are a key driver of development. Our results show that since 1990 structural change has been …

This paper studies the time-series behavior of a set of widely-used social indicators and uncovers two important … stylized facts. First, not all social indicators are created equal in terms of the importance of cyclical fluctuations. While … some social indicators such as the unemployment rate and monetary poverty show large cyclical fluctuations, other social …