Labour markets are currently in a phase of cyclical recovery and undergoing structural transformation due to globalisation, demographic trends, advancing digital technologies and automation and changes in labour market institutions. Against this background, businesses increasingly report that...

Before the current international economic crisis, Asian policymakers deferred to their Western counterparts. The enormous blunders since committed by the US and Europe mean deference has been replaced by disquiet. Asia's concern is that the world will soon come to grief if both the US and Europe...

Why the concept of the third world is out-of-date -- Post-industrialism and the third world -- Goodbye third world -- The culture of idustrialism and the third world -- Whither goes globalism? -- Post-industrial education and the third world -- The third world and the popular imagination --...

The Trans Pacific Partnership, however, is not the only trade agreement facing dangers of being finalized or even implemented. Other protectionist waves – namely those arising in relation to Europe, have witnessed growing difficulties, protests and challenges to efforts aimed at mitigating...

One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back as 1750, economic philosophers such as Baron de Montesquieu in his L'Esprit des Lois, argued, peace is the...

One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back as 1750, economic philosophers such as Baron de Montesquieu in his L'Esprit des Lois, argued, "peace is the...