There is a paradox in the global debate about trade. It has never been easier to trade internationally, but global trade is poorly understood....

Protectionism and mercantilism are yet again at the centre of global economic policy. “America First” is the guiding ethos in a good part of US...

A new consensus is growing across the European Union – and other parts of the world too: that globalization has gone too far. The argument goes as...

Globalization isn’t in decline; it is simply changing. Although the COVID-19 crisis has seen a dramatic decline in goods trade, investments and the...

How do trade patterns change after an external shock such as an economic crisis, and is this shift structural? This paper uses a...

Corporate tax laws vary significantly between different jurisdictions. Over the past four decades, governments globally competed for business...

By Jean-Jacques Hallaert, Member of the Groupe d’Economie Mondiale (GEM) at Sciences Po. China’s rise and the U.S. response to the perceived...

We are at the moment, the first in seventy-five years, where there is no international consensus in support of trade. Indeed, trade is unloved,...

There is now a long history of countries improving sustainability standards in most parts of the economy while at the same time pursuing the...

This paper is co-authored with Badri Narayanan, PhD, Associate Professor at University of Washington, Consultant at McKinsey Global Institute, UN...