Globalization | June 2024

Globalization Today

Updated rules for international trade, coupled with stronger domestic policies, could make globalization more inclusive and sustainable

ADAM JAKUBIK

ELIZABETH VAN HEUVELEN

Inclusive growth | March 2024

What Is Inclusive Growth?

Proponents aim to create societies that are free, equal, and wealthy

RUCHIR AGARWAL

Artificial intelligence | December 2023

Artificial Intelligence’s Promise and Peril

Generative AI is poised to unleash a wave of creativity and productivity but poses important questions for humanity

HERVE TOURPE

Migrant labor | Podcast

Dilip Ratha on the Power of Remittances

Millions of families around the world- even some countries, rely on workers living abroad to keep their economies afloat. In fact, global remittances reached a record $647 billion in 2022—three times that of official development assistance. Dilip Ratha is lead economist for migration and remittances at the World Bank. In this podcast, Ratha says remittances are timely, large, stable, and best of all, they are countercyclical.

Dilip Ratha

Migrant labor | September 2023

Resilient Remittances

The money that migrant workers send home provides stable income to millions of people in developing economies

Dilip Ratha

Protectionism | June 2023

Subsidy Wars

Cooperation and common understanding could dial back trade tensions

ELIZABETH VAN HEUVELEN