substantial welfare benefits for the world, and for China and India, and to act as a powerful offset to the terms-of-trade losses …

The authors analyze the interaction between a country's world market integration and its attitude towards gender roles … country's response to trade opening. Reciprocally, the authors show that as countries integrate into the world economy, the … paradoxically very specific to each country?s productive structure and exposure to world markets …

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 …