The strikingly different labor market performance of major industrial countries suggests that neither globalization nor …. Rather, globalization and technological change cause labor market problems in those economies that fail to adjust sectoral … experience of Japan and the United Kingdom points to missing links in the debate on labor market effects of globalization and …

Globalization improves the prospects for developing countries (DCs) to catch up economically with industrialized … countries. But not all DCs will automatically benefit from globalization. Some DCs even face the risk of being delinked from the … between rich and poor countries in the world economy. Many observers draw an overly pessimistic picture of the perspectives of …

Globalised markets and production patterns offer favourable opportunities to raise world income. Yet globalisation also … prepared to meet the challenge of fiercer competition on world goods and factor markets. In industrialised countries, low … countries could have raised their share in world welfare gains if they had committed themselves more strongly to binding trade …