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Globalisation

Globalisation is the process of increased interconnectedness and interdependence among economies through the rapid flow of goods, services, information and capital across international borders.

In the News Teaching Activity – What are the implications of China’s export-led growth for the global economy? (Feb 2026)

2nd February 2026
4.1.1. Globalisation (Edexcel A-Level Economics Teaching PowerPoint)

Teaching PowerPoints
Benefits and Risks of Trade for Emerging Economies

Study Notes
Trump’s Tariff Gambit: Economic Fallout from a New Trade War

1st February 2025
What helps explain the rising share of global GDP accruing to emerging and developing countries?

Study Notes
Why does international trade make nations more interconnected?

Study Notes
AQA A-Level Economics Year 13 Macroeconomics Knowledge Organiser

Poster / Student Handout
Edexcel A-Level Economics (A) Theme 4 Knowledge Organiser Pack 1

Exam Support
Manufacturing Coming Home - The Economics of Re-Shoring

13th March 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – Rolls Royce’s profits increase after cost-cutting and rise in geopolitical tensions (Feb 2024)

29th February 2024
New Global Profits Tax for 2024

1st January 2024
De-Globalisation: World economy on brink of ‘cold war two'

12th December 2023
4.5.4 Sovereign Wealth Funds (Edexcel A-Level Economics Teaching PowerPoint)

Teaching PowerPoints
Globalisation Is Fracturing. So What Comes Next?

9th November 2023
Does globalisation lead to rising income and wealth inequality?

Study Notes
4.1.1 Globalisation (Edexcel)

Study Notes
Why Globalisation needs a revamp

6th September 2023
4.2.6.1 Globalisation (AQAl A-Level Economics Teaching PowerPoint)

Teaching PowerPoints
Why does Japan have a much lower trade-to-gdp ratio than Singapore and Hong Kong?

Study Notes
What is a hub economy?

Study Notes
What is Transfer Pricing and why is it a hot economic issue?

27th April 2023
Globalisation - Pret A Manger launches in India

24th April 2023
New Application Videos on Globalisation

18th March 2023
How has the rise of emerging economies changed the global pattern of trade?

Study Notes
What is Globalisation?

Topic Videos
The Changing Face of Globalisation - From Near-shoring to Friend-shoring

10th March 2023
The Death of Globalisation?

28th February 2023
Why have shipping containers been so important in the growth of international trade?

Study Notes
Containerisation

Topic Videos
Global Turbulence Persists - IMF World Economic Outlook Update, January 2023

1st February 2023
Threats to Globalisation

Topic Videos
Examples of Common Markets in the Global Economy

Study Notes
Globalisation - What are Sovereign Wealth Funds?

Topic Videos
Non-price competition - does it matter where beer is brewed?

16th December 2022
Economics of Autarky - Should Countries Try to do Everything Themselves?

8th December 2022
Key Stats on the World Economy

26th October 2022
IMF meetings expose the fragility of the world economy

15th October 2022
China slowing - is the centre of economic gravity shifting again?

27th September 2022
Globalisation - Apple shifts iPhone production from China to India

27th September 2022
Retrieval Activity - Globalisation

19th September 2022
New World Bank country classifications by income level are published

10th August 2022
Italy says "arrivederci" to Domino's Pizza

10th August 2022
Shifts in the share of Global GDP

Study Notes
Key Diagrams - Gains from Trade - Impact of Innovation from Domestic Supply

Topic Videos
Key Diagrams - Gains from Trade using Supply and Demand Analysis

Topic Videos
Key Diagrams - Gains from Trade using a PPF Diagram

Topic Videos
2022 Exam Application Context - Countries with Lowest GDP Per Capita

Topic Videos
Impact of Globalisation (Revision Essay Plan)

Practice Exam Questions
Globalisation (Revision Quizlet Activity)

Quizzes & Activities
Turning Into 2022 - Some Important Economics News Issues

29th December 2021
Globalisation: World Trade in 2020 & 2021

Topic Videos
China and the Global Economy: 20 Years on from Accession to the WTO

12th December 2021
Globalisation - Lego to build $1bn factory in Vietnam

9th December 2021
World Economy - How economic policy can help the world recover

17th November 2021
Global Economics - Is China's economic model broken?

17th October 2021
Globalisation and Fiscal Policy - Multilateral agreement on a 15% minimum corporate tax rate

9th October 2021
Micro and Macro Economics in Action! Why is there a chip shortage?

28th August 2021
Globalisation and Trade - Will China become the centre of the world economy?

7th July 2021
2021 - A Year of Shortages in Global Supply Chains

2nd June 2021
Addressing Globalisation I A Level and IB Economics

Topic Videos
Globalisation: Tackling cross-country inequality is key

6th May 2021
Will there be a minimum rate for corporation tax across advanced countries?

6th April 2021
IMF predicts strong rebound in the global economy

10th April 2021
Reopening economies put supply capacity of ports under pressure

8th April 2021
Economics of Deglobalisation

Topic Videos
Applying COVID Vaccines in Economics Assessment Answers

Topic Videos
What Brexit means for globalisation

7th July 2016
Free economics lesson resources

19th July 2016
Crossing the New Silk Road

4th August 2016
Globalisation's discontents

25th August 2016
BBC Newsnight interview with Joseph Stiglitz - a Year 2 homework exercise

5th September 2016
China's export machine increases their global market share

7th September 2016
Martin Wolf on threats to globalisation

8th September 2016
The return of outsider economics

9th September 2016
Joseph Stiglitz - Can we make a globalization that works?

9th September 2016
The size and power of Global Corporations - a quick resource for the classroom

13th September 2016
Globalisation and the Elephant Chart

14th September 2016
China's State-Owned Car Making Giants

18th September 2016
World Trade Report 2016

8th October 2016
The Journey of an iPhone from Factory to Retail Store

29th December 2016
Fixing Globalisation – Jim O’Neill in conversation with George Osborne

10th January 2017
Inward and Outward Thinking in 2017

15th January 2017
Is Free Trade Good or Bad?

19th January 2017
Jim O'Neill defends Globalisation

19th January 2017
Inequality and Hyper-Globalisation

23rd January 2017
Will China rule the world?

25th January 2017
ASEAN

Study Notes
Globalisation - Intra Industry Trade

Study Notes
Globalisation - Intra Regional Trade

Study Notes
Aspects of Globalisation - Revision Presentation

Teaching PowerPoints
Globalisation and the UK Economy

Topic Videos
A2 Macro Exam Skills – Globalisation Question

Topic Videos
Trade Profiles for Developed and Emerging Countries

Study Notes
Revision Presentation: Balance of Payments

Teaching PowerPoints
The Slowdown in World Trade

Topic Videos
Economist Profile: Danny Quah

Topic Videos
Global Output in 2016 - Emerging Countries Dominate

Topic Videos
Revealed Advantage - Global Clothing Exports 1980-2015

Topic Videos
Relative size of major world economies

Topic Videos
International Economics "Key Word Chop" Activity

Quizzes & Activities
Sources of Comparative Advantage

Study Notes
Globalisation - China overtakes the USA as EU's biggest trading partner

17th February 2021
Enlightened self-interest needed in the push to vaccinate the world

17th February 2021
WTO appoints Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as new Director General

15th February 2021
China replaces the US as the number one recipient of new foreign direct investment

25th January 2021
Tax avoidance costs the global economy $427bn a year,

20th November 2020
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

15th November 2020
Will covid kill globalisation?

4th October 2020
Resource Scarcity

Topic Videos
Import Protectionism - Main Arguments Against

Study Notes
Import Protectionism Explained

Study Notes
Coronavirus update: Decades of development progress are at risk

29th July 2020
Toilet paper and global supply chains

10th June 2020
Globalisation and trade patterns (online lesson)

Online Lessons
The rise and fall of global trade: from the Romans to coronavirus

18th May 2020
Labour Migration: Revision Video Series

Topic Videos
Is globalisation now in reverse? [Year 13 Enrichment Task]

7th May 2020
Introduction to Globalisation [Head Start in A-Level Economics]

Online Lessons
Risks that the global flower trade is evaporating

26th April 2020
The global economic centre of gravity will continue to shift after the crisis

7th April 2020
Will coronavirus reverse globalisation?

2nd April 2020
What Is Wrong With Globalisation? (Ha Joon Chang)

8th January 2020
Economic Significance of Trade Imbalances

Topic Videos
How migration could make the world grow richer

1st December 2019
Is India approaching a US-style financial crisis?

14th November 2019
Countries and Trade Blocs / Economic Integration (Quizlet Revision Activity)

Quizzes & Activities
Global Value Chains

Topic Videos
Are There Winners and Losers of Globalization?

17th September 2019
What are patterns of trade?

Topic Videos
Are we heading for a global recession?

19th August 2019
Comparative Advantage and Gains from Trade

Topic Videos
Costs of Globalisation

Topic Videos
Globalisation - Evaluating Benefits and Costs

Exam Support
Gains from Globalisation

Topic Videos
Globalisation

Study Notes
Synoptic Economics: Falling Inward Labour Migration

Topic Videos
A* Evaluation on Foreign Direct Investment

Topic Videos
Corporate Tax Avoidance

Topic Videos
Great Applied Macro Examples for your Exams in 2019

Topic Videos
Advantages and Disadvantages of Globalisation

Topic Videos
Characteristics and Causes of Globalisation

Topic Videos
Transnational businesses and globalisation

Study Notes
Globalisation: How can we tax the footloose multinationals?

14th February 2019
Foreign Direct Investment in the Global Economy

Study Notes
Global Trade: Some Key Introductory Concepts

Study Notes
How might a Chinese economic slowdown affect the UK economy?

Study Notes
Inside China's Future Factory

13th January 2019
Doing Business in the Great Disruption

28th December 2018
Why Multinationals Love Some Places, but Ignore Others

28th December 2018
Theme 1 Micro Knowledge: Country Examples

Study Notes
Ireland as a tax haven for multinationals

10th September 2018
Brexit

Study Notes
Trading Blocs and Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs)

Study Notes
Importance of trade for development

Study Notes
International Trade

Study Notes
Balance of Payments - Trade Imbalances

Study Notes
Benefits and Costs of Globalisation

Study Notes
Edge Revision Webinar: Economics of Globalisation

Topic Videos
Linda Yueh: Globalisation under challenge!

23rd May 2018
Inside iPhone City - A Factory with 350,000 workers

7th May 2018
Lifting productivity growth via immigration

2nd May 2018
Globalisation and Inequality (Revision Essay Plan)

Practice Exam Questions
Globalisation and the spread of knowledge

25th April 2018
Labour Migration and the UK Economy (Labour Markets)

Topic Videos
Chinese businesses winning contracts on the new Silk Road

8th September 2015
Contestable Markets and the Global Parcels Industry (Revision Webinar)

Topic Videos
Impact of further automation on jobs is uneven throughout the UK - 'Higher or Lower' activity

1st February 2018
Battling to save the world's bananas

1st February 2018
Do globalisation and world trade fuel inequality?

2nd January 2018
In Conversation: Robert Reich and Joseph Stiglitz

28th December 2017
Where next for Norway's sovereign wealth fund?

21st November 2017
Krugman & Lagarde on Trade and Protectionism

27th September 2017
GAFA Market Power continues to Grow

20th September 2017
The End of Globalisation?

7th September 2017
Global Financial Crisis - Ten Years On

6th August 2017
Global Economy - Seven Measures of Change in Economic Power

2nd August 2017
Which countries have the lowest import tariffs?

31st July 2017
Lessons from the China Shock

16th July 2017
Brexit and the UK Economy (Revision Webinar Video)

Topic Videos
Hard Talk: Stephen King on Grave New World

17th June 2017
Globalisation: Why Average Isn't Good Enough

13th June 2017
Key Macro Topics to Revise for June 2017

17th May 2017
Defending Globalisation - Special Report from the Economist

1st October 2016
Beyond the Bike Lesson Resource: Economic Forecasting

10th June 2016
What can the iPhone tell us about China's Trade?

31st May 2016
Beyond the Bike Unit 4 Revision Resources

23rd May 2016
Options for Trade Deals if the UK Leaves the EU

24th April 2016
Chinese businesses continue their overseas acquisitions

22nd April 2016
OCR F585 Economics - Extract 2 - Globalisation and Balance of Payments Imbalances

5th April 2016
OCR F585 Economics - Extract 1 - Globalisation and Trade

5th April 2016
A Brief History of Industrial Revolutions

2nd April 2016
The world as 100 people

18th March 2016
The End of the Chinese Economic Miracle

9th March 2016
A New Phase of Globalization

6th March 2016
The England football team suit and globalisation

11th February 2016
TPP is signed! What do trade agreements do?

5th February 2016
Beyond the Bike Lesson Resources - education, development, and a hint of England

28th January 2016
Globalisation and the Boeing 787

28th January 2016
Is there any such thing as a national car brand?

28th January 2016
The economic impact of airport hubs - lesson resource

15th January 2016
Causes and Effects of China's Growth Slowdown - Views from Economists

27th November 2015
A Tale of Two Financial Crises: the 1930s and Now

16th December 2014
You can't outsource responsibility

16th February 2015
Dani Rodrik - Globalisation - the trade-offs

16th February 2015
Natural hedging to reduce exposure to currency volatility

6th April 2015
Joseph Stiglitz on The Great Divide

22nd May 2015
Is Globalisation in Retreat?

26th May 2015
International Trade Agreements

26th June 2015
Post-China 16 Countries

23rd July 2015
Have we reached peak globalisation

2nd September 2015
Economic Principles of the Refugee Crisis

10th September 2015
IKEA's Staggering Revenue Growth Continues

10th September 2015
Global Competitiveness Report 2015-16

20th September 2015
Exposure to the Chinese Slowdown

24th September 2015
Beyond the Bike - conflict minerals and smartphones

1st October 2015
Evaluate the consequences for the global economy of the Chinese economic slowdown

7th October 2015
In the long run has globalisation made everyone better off?

15th October 2015
Challenges facing the UK Steel Industry

20th October 2015

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