This paper considers the evolution of global transportation usage over the past half century and its implications for supply chains. Transportation usage per unit of real output has more than doubled as costs decreased by a third. Participation of emerging economies in world trade and...

Using monthly data on trade in goods between January 2016 and May 2023, this study assesses the impact of recent shocks on the fragmentation of the global economy, looking in particular at the dynamics of friend-shoring, near-shoring and decoupling between the world's two largest economies....

This paper investigates the macroeconomic policy challenges associated with a prospective continuation of international trade and financial integration over the next two decades, making use of a global macroeconomic model newly developed by the OECD. The analysis has several important policy...

Focusing on Panama and globalization, this paper opts to suggest how Panama could integrate itself better to a fairer globalization. Panama can benefit from economic growth, greater social cohesion, and higher standards of living brought by globalisation, but so far these benefits have been...

Copyright is no longer a matter of promoting the progress of science in the words of the U.S. Constitution. It is now more than ever before a matter of trade. Furthermore, under the WTO's TRIPS Agreement, we now have a global copyright (Gcopy;) regime. The globalization of copyright law...

This paper joins the growing body of literature on exploring the ethical debate and dilemmas of ethics in business. Relying on evidence from studies on the activities of the multinationals in the developing countries, this paper reveals that globalization has compounded rather than resolved the...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a new age technology, which brought a revolution in today's digital era. Artificial Intelligence can transform the world the way electricity did almost an 100 years ago. Artificial Intelligence is augmenting slowly but steadily in spite of its enormous future...

One of the issues related to globalization - the most important issue is the sovereignty of national states and resonance. The stage is on the agenda of with modern in global competitiveness and economic sovereignty of the interoperability problem, which, in turn, organically linked to the...

The paper aims to provide an overview of the major opportunities and challenges of the fourth phase of globalization in the current macro scenario characterized by a high level of economic and geopolitical complexity and uncertainty. The assumptions and results reported in this work are based...