country depends on its connections to the rest of the world and on the human capital of the countries it is exchanging … knowledge with. We show how the diffusion of knowledge through the world explains the evolution of global income inequality. It … generates a "Great Divergence", that is increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the industrial …

, ranging from the demise of the communist system, increased globalization, new competition for multinational firms and higher …

This chapter provides a broad overview of the upward trends in financial globalization and foreign direct investment … and asks whether and how financial globalization is linked with the foreign direct investment decisions of non … financial globalization provides a reduction in broadly defined transaction costs which can boost both trade and foreign direct …