Global inequality at lowest level for 140 years

The world has become a much better place in recent decades when it comes to poverty and prosperity: extreme poverty has been significantly reduced …

Global supply chains in a post-COVID world

COVID-19 has caused huge disruptions to global trade and supply chains, both directly and indirectly (as a result of policy responses: lockdowns, social distancing …

How will Covid-19 affect global trade?

In April, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) published its latest trade forecast predicting global trade in goods would fall by between 13% and 32% in 2020 …

Now is not the time to go soft on globalisation (part 2)

…continued from Part 1.
No discussion of globalisation would be complete without considering some of the myths that have over the recent years come to …

No relocation without tax and regulatory relief

French inadequacies in the face of the COVID-19 crisis are giving rise to a fully fledged attack on globalisation. We are observing an increase …

Now is not the time to go soft on globalisation

The progress that free trade and globalisation have achieved are coming under severe threat from the Covid-19 pandemic. There are siren …

Coronavirus is not the end of globalisation

The outbreak of the new coronavirus COVID-19 has been described as a threat to globalisation. But spreading risk across the world is essential in …

The ambiguity of the Commission’s “Harnessing Globalisation” paper

On May 10, 2017, the European Commission published its reflection paper on Harnessing Globalisation. It is the second paper in a series initiated by …

Global Value Chains and EU trade policy

Earlier this year, the EU’s Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström spoke in Brussels about the various challenges facing EU trade policy in 2017. Talking Trump, …

The Istituto Bruno Leoni Index of Globalisation: a summary

On 28 March, EPICENTER’s Italian partner, the Istituto Bruno Leoni (IBL), published its Index of Globalisation. The index covers 39 countries, including members of …

Davos 2017: The forum’s turn to the disenfranchised

The rise of protectionism and populism around the globe shaped this year’s conversations at the World Economic Forum. Overlapping with Donald Trump’s inauguration, the …

CETA; Dead, alive or somewhere in-between?

Briana Chui // 27.10.2016
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), a prospective trade deal between Canada and the EU, came to a screeching …

The fight of a generation – literally

Diego Zuluaga // 21.09.2016
 
Economic debates are often presented as a contest between two opposing interest groups. Marxian socialism pitted capital against labour. …

The Long View on Brexit: Liberalism, Nationalism, and Socialism

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey // 11.07.2016
 
In the past three centuries the European clerisy has had, when it comes to politics and economics, three …

Public opinion is turning against free trade and globalisation

Diego Zuluaga // 05.07.2016
This article is based on a presentation delivered at the Restructuring of the Global Economy (ROGE) conference, Oxford University.
 
It …

Brexit: a natural experiment for the EU

29 June 2016
Can a country do better after leaving the EU? Indeed, we can perform an even more granular analysis and seek to …

Enemies of Free Trade

 
Francisco Cabrillo, Civismo, February 2014
 
The combination of ideological prejudice and direct economic interests may yet do a great deal of harm …