, globalization has been good for growth in poor countries at least by diminishing price volatility. But comparative advantage has … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …

, Sweden and the USA. These 19 countries form the panel data base which is used to explore the determinants of wage …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …

years were also ones of economic autarky and 'de-globalization', while the rest were ones of increasing globalization in … world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence … causal: the globalization of commodity and factor markets served to play a critical, perhaps the critical, role in …