Globalization and inequalities: what we have learned from international experience

CEBRAP - Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento São Paulo Advanced School of Social Sciences - Session #01 [March 23th, 2018] Lecture: "Globalization and inequalities: what we have learned from international experience", by Otaviano Canuto [The World Bank].

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Overlapping Globalizations

Current technological developments in manufacturing are likely to lead to a partial reversal of the wave of fragmentation and global value chains that was at the core of the rise of North-South trade from 1990 onward. At the same time, China – the main hub of the global-growth-cum-structural-change of that period – may attempt to extend the previous wave through its One Belt, One Road initiative.

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ECON+ The changing face of international finance by Otaviano Canuto

  https://www.mixcloud.com/EconPlus/econ-interview-with-otaviano-canuto-trends-in-financial-globalisation/   In our latest podcast with Otaviano Canuto, ECON+ discusses the changing face of international finance. Looking at the more detailed picture, we see that trends may not…

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The Metamorphosis of Financial Globalisation

After a strong rising tide starting in the 1990s, financial globalisation seems to have reached a plateau since the global financial crisis. However, that apparent stability has taken place along a deep reshaping of cross-border financial flows, featuring de-banking and an increasing weight of non-banking financial cross-border transactions. Sources of potential instability and long-term funding challenges have morphed accordingly

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