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Martin Wolf on threats to globalisation

Geoff Riley

8th September 2016

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Martin Wolf talks here about some of the themes in a major article he has written for the Financial Times on de-globalisation.

Over the last 6-7 years, trade growth has stagnated (in terms of volume) and the stock of cross-border financial assets has been shrinking relative to world GDP. FDI inflows and outflows have been declining relative to GDP and trade liberalisation has essentially stopped as global trade talks have stalled.

Martin Wolf on threats to globalisation
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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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