The many and varied crises in the world economy since 2007 seem to have different origins and diverse manifestations …

The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009 … internationally, with severe economic and financial disruptions in many countries around the world. The 2009 global recession, set off …

projections and scenario analysis. Such forecasting has become increasingly challenging, thanks to the rapid pace of globalization … the world urgently need to see the big picture if they are to deal with the specific challenges and opportunities they …-house researchers and global experts who work on state-of-the-art models related to globalization, technological progress and …

playing field' would be ineffective and result in destructive conflicts in the World Trade Organization. Lack of progress at …

, despite well-known deficiencies. This paper develops and applies optimal aggregators for the real-world case of multiple …

international trade. As world trade is set to rebound, this paper addresses three questions: (i) Will trade volumes rebound in a … symmetric fashion as world economic growth rebounds? (ii) Will the crisis result in a change in the structure of trade, and in …

economic management in the developed world and the economic models that guide it. The crisis has revealed major market failures … market-state balance, macroeconomic management, globalization, development financing, and public spending. On the one hand … should largely reinforce the Post-Washington Consensus on development that has emerged over the past decade -- a world view …

of elderly in the world, and below-replacement fertility rates since at least the 1980s. The typology helps identify … development policy priorities for countries in different stages of demographic transition, and opportunities through globalization …