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Globalisation failing the world's people
News, Joseph Stiglitz, Published on 08/08/2016
» Fifteen years ago, I wrote a little book, entitled Globalisation and its Discontents, describing growing opposition in the developing world to globalising reforms. It seemed a mystery: people in developing countries had been told that globalisation would increase overall well-being. So why had so many people become so hostile to it?
The great trans-Pacific free-trade charade
Joseph Stiglitz, Published on 04/10/2015
» As negotiators and ministers from the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries meet in Atlanta in an effort to finalise the details of the sweeping new Trans-Pacific Partnership, some sober analysis is warranted. The biggest regional trade and investment agreement in history is not what it seems.