Today’s White Paper on defence procurement makes disappointing reading for the UK defence industry — and for anyone who believes that one of the lessons of the last few years is that we need a more active industrial policy. IPPR set out the case in a recent report on globalisation, arguing for sustained support for industries, like defence, which have high potential for growth, for exp...

A new report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), headed by a foreword by Lord Peter Mandleson, takes an in-depth look at the positive and negative impacts of the increased internationalisation of trade – what they characterise as the Third Wave of Globalisation. IPPR’s Will Straw and Alex Glennie set out how the modern increase in

Many millions of Indians now stand to be driven towards poverty and hunger, as the sudden removal of import tariffs is likely to have a devastating effect on farmers - suddenly finding their markets swamped by European produce. This is one of those rare times I agree with Peter Mandelson on globalisation.

Globalisation has thrown up a set of vital issues that demand international solutions and make it worth preserving a European ideal

Are Ridley Scott's falling petals, which he seems to like so much that he puts them in his films over and over again, anything more than a way to gussy up the triumph of oligarchy, corporate capital and globalisation?Rick Moody, in a Guardian article entitled Frank Miller and the rise of cryptofascist Hollywood...

The simple fact is that globalisation has not only hit the unskilled hard but has also proved a bonanza for the global super-rich, writes Jeffrey Sachs

More globalisation! The Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) forecasts that the value of seaborne UK imports, adjusted for inflation, will grow by 287pc over the next two decades, with exports delivered by sea up 119pc. Britain’s £345bn imports by sea in 2010 will rocket to £1.95tn by 2030, the Cebr estimates, with exports

Once again I see people blaming the current economic crisis on capitalism and failing to attribute culpability to the real culprit in this ongoing disaster - globalisation. Why is it all down to globalisation? Well - to explain that I first need to explain what capitalism is and isn't. Capitalism is an economic model - not a political ideology - whereas globalisation is an extension of capita...

I have been reading this book, Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next, by Greg Lindsay and John Kasarda, and it is full of gems. We take the ability to order a book or other item online and have it delivered in days for granted, and perhaps tend to forget how much we have got used to this unless, that is, such services are disrupted by things such as security clampdowns or Icelandic volca...

Aid is to be extended to workers hurt by globalisation – clearing a key hurdle to trade agreements with South Korea, Columbia and Panama