At the start of the twentieth century, Australia was arguably the highest-income country in the world. By 1950 it was ranked third; by 1970 it was eighth; and by 1999 it was twenty-sixth, according to the World Bank Atlas method of measuring GNP per capita (or twentieth using the World Bank's...

Developing Asia's rapid economic growth has been shifting the global economic and industrial centers of gravity away from the North Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade, and boosting South–South trade. How will trade patterns change over the next 2 decades in the course of...

Globalization is not new to the world's wine markets, but its influence over the past decade or so has increased dramatically. This paper reviews the effects of that on both the Old World and New World. In focusing retrospectively on the period since the late 1980s, it points to the dramatic...